UK defies Russia on British Council ban
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Britain on Tuesday defied a Russian  order to close the regional offices of its cultural arm from  New Year's day, but there was no evidence of Russian attempts  to forcibly close British Council centers.
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MOSCOW, July 19 -- Russia expelled four British diplomats on Thursday, retaliating three days after officials in London ordered four Russians out of the country in a dispute over a murder investigation.
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Britain condemns Russia's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi over the Litvinenko murder.
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Britain has declared diplomatic war on  Russia by expelling four envoys from London and failing to  respect Moscow&#39;s constitutional ban on extradition, Russian  newspapers said on Tuesday.
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Two disputed offices of the British Council are likely to remain closed amid ongoing UK-Russia tensions.
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Russia has expelled four British diplomats, days after Britain expelled four Russian diplomats in a row over Moscow's refusal to hand over a suspect in the poisoning death of an ex-KGB spy.
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UK accused of seeking confrontation over Litvinenko case, but no tit-for-tat expulsions.
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Russia summons the UK ambassador over the reopening of British Council offices in defiance of a ban.
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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 officer &#151; Britain's first use of the sanction in more than 10 years.
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Russia said it would deliver a response today to Britainâs decision to expel four of its diplomats, amid signs that it will not allow the diplomatic row to affect booming economic ties.
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Britain backs bids by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan for permanent seats on the UN Security Council, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said.
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Britain's overseas cultural arm, the British Council, reopened two regional offices on Monday in defiance of a Russian ban, fuelling new tensions between the two countries.
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A UK foreign minister insists that Britain does not want its diplomatic dispute with Russia to go "any wider".
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Britain rejected Russian allegations on Friday that it was politicizing the case of murdered Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
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Russia has formally refused to extradite the man suspected of murdering former agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210, British prosecutors said Tuesday.
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British athletes will not be banned from commenting on political issues at the Beijing Olympics, the British Olympic Association says.
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LONDON/MOSCOW  - Britain accused Russia of Cold War tactics on Thursday after what it called a campaign of intimidation by security services forced its cultural centers in two Russian cities to halt operations.