Russia 'summons' UK envoy
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Russia summons the UK ambassador over the reopening of British Council offices, Russian media report.
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Russia expelled four British diplomats on Thursday and suspended cooperation with London on fighting terrorism, as a bitter row over Moscow's refusal to extradite a murder suspect escalated.
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Britain said on Monday it was expelling four Russian diplomats over Moscow's refusal to extradite the main suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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Britain ordered the expulsion of four Russian diplomats on Monday over Moscow's refusal to hand over the main suspect in the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, further escalating tension between Russia and the West.
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Russia's foreign minister on Friday accused Britain of politicizing the investigation into the poisoning death of a former KGB agent, warning it would strain relations between the two countries.
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British police investigating the poisoning of a former KGB agent formally requested assistance from their counterparts in Russia, whose foreign minister warned Monday that continued suggestions of Kremlin involvement in the death could damage diplomatic relations.
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Russia said it would deliver a response  on Tuesday to Britain&#39;s 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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Russian prosecutors will hold a press conference on Monday at 0800 GMT on cooperation with British law enforcement, the prosecutor&#39;s office said on Saturday amid a diplomatic row between London and Moscow over a high-profile murder inquiry.
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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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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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Andrei Lugovoi, named by Britain as a suspect in the killing of the former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, claims UK's special services tried to recruit him.
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Russia&#39;s foreign ministry will make an announcement at 5:00 pm on Thursday on relations with Britain after London announced the expulsion of four Russian diplomats earlier this week, officials said.
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Claims that the Kremlin backed the Litvinenko murder are "preposterous", Russia's UK ambassador says.
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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 is expelling four British diplomats in retaliation for a similar move by Britain, news agencies reported Thursday, as the dispute between Moscow and London over the case of poisoned KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko escalated.
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LONDON, July 16 -- Britain will expel four Russian diplomats in response to Moscow's refusal to hand over for trial the Russian businessman accused of murdering Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London last year, the British government announced Monday.
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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.