British Council Suspends Activities at 2 Russian Offices
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MOSCOW, Jan. 17 -- The British Council on Thursday suspended operations at its two regional offices in Russia, citing "a campaign of intimidation against our staff" that the cultural organization said presented a "significant risk to them."
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British Council offices will defy a Russian order for them to close, the UK embassy says.
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Russia's human rights ombudsman on Friday criticised a decision by Russian authorities to close two regional branches of the British Council on January 1 in a mounting dispute.
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Russian authorities cancel a London exhibition of paintings over fears the art would not be returned.
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Europe's main election watchdog cancelled plans on Thursday to monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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The Russian government has accused the UK of attempting to "distort facts" in the British Council row.
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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 is considering expelling Russian diplomats from London over Russia&#39;s refusal to extradite a man suspected of killing Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London last year, British newspapers said on Thursday.
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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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Relations between Britain and Russia take sharp dive over Litvinenko case.
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Russia and Britain traded threats and recrimination on Tuesday as a diplomatic feud over the role of the British government's cultural arm worsened.
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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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Russia announced on Monday it will not issue new entry visas to staff working in the British government's cultural offices in two regions, sharpening a row that has soured already-poor relations.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Britain's ambassador Monday, after the British Council defied orders by reopening its offices.
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Britain's overseas cultural arm, the British Council, reopened its Saint Petersburg office on Monday in defiance of a Russian ban.
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Britain said on Monday it would expel four diplomats from the Russian embassy in London and suspend visa negotiations in retaliation for Moscow's refusal to extradite a suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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The British government's cultural arm, caught in a political row between London and Moscow, said on Thursday its Russian regional offices had halted work because local staff were being interviewed by Russia's security service.