Times Online: Russia says: "Britain behaving like colonial masters" - by Tony Halpin -
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Russia says: "Britain behaving like colonial masters" - by Tony Halpin
Russia accused Britain today of behaving like an imperial master as the bitter row over the future of the British Council intensified. Sergei Lavrov, the Foreign Minister, said that Britain’s defiance of an order to close the council’s regional offices in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg smacked of “nostalgia for colonial times”. David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said that Russia was treating the council as a “hostage” in its conflict with Britain over President Putin’s refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoy, the man wanted in London for the murder of the dissident former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko.
