British Council spat could hit EU-Russia ties: ambassador
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Britain's envoy to Russia warned Saturday that plans to shut British cultural offices could hamper EU-Russia ties, but said London would not block talks on a new bilateral pact because of the dispute.
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Britain&#39;s charge against an ex-KGB officer in the murder of a fugitive Russian agent in London is part of a political campaign, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband accused Russia Tuesday of holding the British Council "hostage" as part of unrelated diplomatic tensions.
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Russia warned Britain on Thursday that reopening two offices of a British cultural organization would inflame already tense relations between the countries.
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Britain is using the case of murdered Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in a political campaign that is harming ties with Moscow, Russia's foreign minister said on Friday.
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The British ambassador to Moscow Anthony Brenton, who has been harassed by a youth group supported by the Kremlin over the past four months, linked the two parties and said that Russia could stop the group if it wanted to, The Daily Telegraph reported.
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Russia is backsliding on democracy and the EU must take Moscow to task while bringing other former Soviet republics closer to the West, the bloc's incoming External Relations Commissioner said on Tuesday.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Litvinenko affair was damaging ties with Britain, and British detectives headed for Moscow as part of their investigation into the ex-KGB spy's death by poisoning.
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UK ambassador summoned after council reopens St Petersburg office in defiance of closure order
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The European Union threw its weight behind Britain on Wednesday in a row with Russia over its refusal to extradite a man suspected of killing a former KGB agent in London last year.
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The British Council was to make a statement Thursday on the future of its Saint Petersburg office after pressure by Russian authorities forced it to close for a second day, the office's head said.
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MOSCOW -- Russia's foreign minister warned yesterday that continued suggestions of Kremlin involvement in the death of a former KGB agent could damage relations with Britain, which sent police to Moscow to expand the investigation into the London poisoning.
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Russia's foreign ministry on Friday said Britain was to blame for a diplomatic crisis over the closure of two British cultural centres and had tried to "twist the facts."
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Russia summoned the British ambassador and imposed sanctions Monday after the British Council defied a government ban to close two offices, heightening diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
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Ukraine's Orange Revolution will give a big boost to her relations with the European Union, but membership of the EU soon is out of the question, the EU's special envoy Nicolaas Biegman said.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 16 -- Escalating a diplomatic dispute with Britain, Russian security agents called in Russian employees of the British Council for questioning Wednesday and police briefly detained the Briton who heads the cultural organization's St. Petersburg office.
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Two British Council offices will defy a Russian order for them to close, the UK embassy in Moscow says.