By Ben Lazarus For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:46 BST, 4 May 2019 | Updated: 00:47 BST, 5 May 2019
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The Russian ambassador to London is to leave his post after eight years – just weeks after The Mail on Sunday revealed he may have worked in the US as a Soviet spy.
Alexander Yakovenko, 64, became a contentious figure after making mocking remarks about the Salisbury poisoning attack, which nearly killed Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia and led to the death of British mother Dawn Sturgess.
In March, a Mail on Sunday investigation suggested Mr Yakovenko was expelled from the US during a purge of agents at the height of the Cold War.
Experts believe our exposé could be behind the decision to send him back to Russia.
Russian ambassador to London Alexander Yakovenko (pictured with his wife Nana) is to leave his post after eight years – just weeks after The Mail on Sunday revealed he may have worked in the US as a Soviet spy
The revelation, which Russia has strenuously denied, centred on Mr Yakovenko's disappearance from the US in 1986 at the time the US was sending dozens of Soviet diplomats working in New York back home.
Tory MP Bob Seely and Independent MP Ian
