British Council offices reopen in Russia
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A British cultural organization reopened offices in two Russian cities Monday in defiance of an order to close, reportedly prompting Russian authorities to summon the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry.
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Bureaucrats in a Russian region have been sent back to school to improve their spelling and grammar.
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James Rodgers in Moscow reports on the fashion for using English words, especially in Russian business circles.
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LONDON, Dec. 4 -- A team of British police investigators arrived in Moscow on Monday to begin questioning people about the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who had recently become a British citizen, in a case that is straining relations between the two governments.
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Two British Council offices will defy a Russian order for them to close, the UK embassy in Moscow says.
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A team of Russian investigators met British police in London to discuss the investigation into the murder of former secret agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Metropolitan Police said.
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Russia said on Friday it hoped to  restore normal relations with Britain following tit-for-tat  expulsions of diplomats this week, but business leaders said  commercial ties could suffer.
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The European Union has asked Russia to reconsider its decision to close two British Council offices.
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Russia's Federal Security Service opened a criminal espionage investigation on Friday into accusations that murdered ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko and a self-exiled Russian tycoon in London were both British spies.
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By Laura Elston, Deputy Court Correspondent, PA News in Istanbul. The British Consulate General in Istanbul reopened today almost a year after it was devastated by a deadly suicide bomb attack.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.
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LONDON, January 1, (RIA Novosti s Alexander Smotrov) - Britain s Group of Eight presidency in 2005 is important as an example for the subsequent - Russia s first - presidency of that organisation, Grigory ...
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Britain voiced optimism Friday that a Russian art show can go ahead after scrambling to prevent Russia cancelling the exhibition, in the latest diplomatic tussle between London and Moscow.
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Russia's decision to temporarily close regional offices of the British Council cultural body is "totally unacceptable," Prime Minister Gordon Brown said as he urged Moscow to reverse the move.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 14 -- Two British government-financed cultural offices opened for business Monday in defiance of a Russian government shutdown order, leading Russia to retaliate with a formal protest and limitations on visas for British staff members.
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Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen after restoration in November 2009, a year behind schedule, after emergency work to save it from collapse, officials said on Thursday.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador on Monday after Britain defied a Kremlin order and reopened its cultural offices in a row that has soured already-poor relations between the two powers.