By Anne Penketh Russia has mirrored the UK's expu

Russia held off Tuesday on a threatened response to Britain's expulsion of four of its diplomats in the bitter standoff over the poisoning death of a former KGB officer, but it warned London it was on a "direct path to confrontation."

By David Stringer, Associated Press LONDON -- Pri

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband's Commons statement on the Litvinenko affair and his announcement of measures in response to Russia's refusal to extradite the main suspect, Andrey Lugovoy, predictably, came in from criticism on Russian TV's main bulletins on the evening of 16 July.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown's new government ordered the expulsion of four Russian diplomats Monday over the Kremlin's refusal to extradite the key suspect in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB spy - Britain's first use of the sanction in more than 10 years.