Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, said the move against the British Council was a "counter measure" for the diplomatic expulsions from London that followed Russia's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, the businessman sought for Litvinenko's death.
Grace Mugabe's recent return from a two-month break in east Asia, where she supposedly was resting after an appendix removal operation, preceded some high-level expulsions from the party.
"The vast majority of issues are resolved by negotiation, a small percentage require more direct forms of intervention including punishment shootings and expulsions," they said.
Concerns about the schemes have been highlighted in cases from Belfast to Derry, where families who have fallen foul of the local IRA complained of bias and arbitrary decisions, including expulsions from their homes.
There were indeed large-scale expulsions of Turks, and the expropriation of Turkish-owned land.Still, although the policies advocated by Messrs Blair and Gladstone may have been rather different, their moral fervour is strikingly similar.
The American Civil Liberties Union wants federal money spent on "positive behaviour supports" designed to reduce suspensions, expulsions and calls to the police.Mr Whitehead suggests something much simpler.
The expulsions mark an end to the general coddling of Mr Putin and to the priority that has historically been given to commercial interests in British policy towards Russia.
But now, once again, killings and expulsions have restarted.To some extent, the SLM bears responsibility for the new wave of violence since it has been attacking food convoys and aid workers.
The list will be kept up to date here (which also has details of all staff books in print).______________________________________________Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey By Bruce Clark.
Even after mass expulsions of Indians by Myanmar's new military governments in the 1960s, there are still thought to be up to 3m people of Indian descent in Myanmar.
But it is at best debatable whether the expulsions reflect faithfully a directive that, according to the EU's own summary, was intended for a " serious and present threat which affects the fundamental interests of the state .The most shocking aspect of the decree is that it is aimed so openly at Romanians.
