Britain 'twisted facts' in cultural offices row: Russia
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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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Two British Council offices will defy a Russian order for them to close, the UK embassy in Moscow says.
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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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Britain accused Russia of "reprehensible" conduct Thursday and announced it was closing offices of the British Council because of a Russian secret police crackdown against the cultural body.
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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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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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Russia accused Britain of politicizing the case of murdered Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko on Friday and said the affair was hurting the two countries' relations.
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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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A British cultural organization at the center of a dispute between the Kremlin and Britain closed its office in St. Petersburg under pressure from Russiaâs intelligence service.
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President Vladimir Putin took a war of words with London to new heights Tuesday, angrily dismissing British demands for the extradition of the sole suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko as a relic of British "colonial thinking."
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The European Union Wednesday weighed into a flaring diplomatic dispute between Britain and Russia by criticising Moscow for failing to cooperate with a probe into the murder of a former agent in London.
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LONDON/MOSCOW  - Britain accused Russia of "conduct not worthy of a great country" on Thursday after what it called a campaign of intimidation by security services forced its cultural centers in two Russian cities to halt operations.
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Russia's culture agency said Thursday it had called off a landmark exhibition of Russian art in London because Britain had failed to guarantee the paintings' return.
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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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Threats by Russia to take further action against the British Council "can only make matters worse", the foreign secretary says.
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A British cultural organization accused Russian authorities on Wednesday of harassing its staff and said it had temporarily closed its offices in St. Petersburg.
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Britain is using the case of murdered  Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in a political campaign  that is harming ties with Russia, Interfax news agency quoted  Russia&#39;s foreign minister as saying on Friday.