News Source: B92
| about 1 month ago
Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Other disputes have included Russia's pressure on the British Council, the U.K.'s refusal to extradite fugitive Russian businessmen and U.K. criticism over Russia's war with...
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 month ago
Trade between the two nations has tripled in the last six years and Britain remains the fourth biggest foreign investor in Russia. There are also about 250,000 Russians living in the south-east of England. But among that select group of people whose...
News Source: The Independent
| about 1 month ago
Britain is still aggrieved by the closure of regional offices of the British Council, which President Dmitry Medvedev has accused of being a front for British spies, while the Russians are frustrated at the refusal of the British courts to extradite...
News Source: 7days
| about 1 month ago
David Miliband, on the first visit by a British foreign secretary to Russia for five years, sought yesterday to warm relations that had plunged back to a Cold War chill by a series of bitter rows. Miliband said London and Moscow should work together...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, flew to Moscow determined to focus on issues of “common ground” with Russia, such as Iran’s nuclear ambitions and stability in Afghanistan. But little progress was made and focus was rapidly dragged back...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
Andrei Lugovoy told The Times that it was David Miliband who was to blame for souring relations by expelling four Russian diplomats after the Kremlin rejected demands to hand him over for trial. Mr Lugovoy, a former KGB officer, said that he was...