Russia Expels 4 Austrian Diplomats in Tit-for-Tat Move

A man walks in front of a huge Russian flag hanging on the Moskva Hotel's facade at the central Manezhnaya Square just outside the Kremlin in Moscow on March 6, 2012. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images

MOSCOW—Russia said on Thursday it was expelling four Austrian diplomats in a tit-for-tat move after Vienna expelled four Russian diplomats in a case which appeared to be related to spying.

Austria said on Feb. 2 it was expelling four Russian diplomats for behaving in a manner inconsistent with international agreements, a reason often invoked in spying cases, without giving specifics. It gave them a week to leave.