Moscow — Russia warned Britain on Thursday that it could no longer ignore Moscow’s "legitimate" questions over a spy poisoning scandal. "It will not be possible to ignore the legitimate questions we are asking," foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said hours before a meeting of the UN Security Council, which is due to discuss the spiraling diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West. Britain blames Russia for the March 4 poisoning of former double-agent Sergei Skripal on UK soil with what it says was a Soviet-made, military-grade nerve agent. The crisis has led to the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats between Moscow and the West in recent memory. Early on Thursday morning, about 60 US diplomats ordered out of Russia left their embassy compound in Moscow. Russia called a meeting of the global chemical watchdog on Wednesday over the Salisbury incident, but failed in its bid to join the probe by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Russia then...
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