Russia arrests British Council chief
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Diplomatic row escalates with arrest of staff including Neil Kinnock's son
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The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday said it was putting "legal pressure" on the British Council, including visa sanctions, after the council reopened two regional offices in defiance of a Russian ban.
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Britain said Monday it will expel four Russian diplomats over Moscow&#39;s refusal to extradite a key suspect in the murder of ex agent Alexander Litvinenko, raising the spectre of a Cold War-style standoff.
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Russian police said on Friday they had  detained suspected crime boss Semion Mogilevich, who is wanted  by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged fraud,  money laundering and racketeering.
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Russian prosecutors have charged emigre tycoon Boris Berezovsky with plotting to seize power, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Russia tells the British Council to suspend the work of its two offices outside Moscow by the start of 2008.
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Russia's spy chief said Tuesday that the British foreign intelligence service tried to recruit a Russian citizen as an agent, an accusation likely to further sour relations strained by Britain charging a former Soviet-era spy in the murder of another ex-KGB officer.
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British police Friday arrested a man who used a sledgehammer to attack security gates at the prime minister's residence, Sky News reported.
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West European MPs and a Russian gay rights leader are arrested in Moscow during violence at a banned protest.
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British police arrested a suspect in a series of letter bombs sent to offices linked to traffic enforcement, authorities said Monday.
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Russia summons the UK ambassador over the reopening of British Council offices, Russian media report.
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Detectives confirm arrest in Moscow of mafia boss wanted by both US and UK
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Police in Moscow arrested a suspected international crime boss who has been linked to Russia's multibillion dollar natural gas industry and has long been sought by the FBI, officials said Friday.
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THE mainland Chinese executive at the centre of Singaporeâs biggest rogue trading scandal since Nick Leeson brought down Barings Bank in 1995 was yesterday arrested by the islandâs commercial crimes police unit.
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Britain's foreign secretary on Thursday accused Russian authorities of "blatant intimidation" of staff at a British cultural body caught up in a diplomatic feud between Moscow and London, saying Russia's behavior evoked memories of the Cold War.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 12 -- Russia on Wednesday ordered the closure of two offices of the British Council, the international cultural arm of the British government. The council responded that it has "no plans" to shutter the offices.
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Police have arrested the leader of the far-right British National Party after he was secretly filmed calling Islam &quot;a wicked, vicious faith&quot;.