Chill Winds Over Europe ; Anglo-Russian Relations Are Cooler Still

The Washington Times › May 24, 2007

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The row is already deep and nasty. It just got nastier.

British prosecutors have just announced they intend to file murder charges against former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi for the radiation poisoning of former colleague Alexander Litvinenko in London in November. Britain will now seek to extradite him to London. Russia says no chance; it will not behanding him over. Real diplomatic trouble is now brewing. Relations between Moscowand London, positively glacial for months, are now entering uncharted, freezing territory.

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Chill Winds Over Europe ; Anglo-Russian Relations Are Cooler Still

The diplomatic temperaturehas been falling steadily for some time. In April, Yuri Fedotov, Russia's ambassador to the UK, characterized British-Russian relations as already bad with the potential to get much worse. Russia says it has several bones to pick with Britain. ...

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