Russia threatens: 'Reciprocal measures' if US doesn't remove 'irritants'

Russia threatened to take “reciprocal measures” if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Moscow doesn’t alleviate “irritants” plaguing the former Soviet power, in a preview of his trip.

“The long list of irritants [created] by Washington has not become shorter yet,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tillerson’s arrival. “Since nothing is being done to settle the problems in bilateral relations, we will have to take reciprocal measures.”