British Prime Minister Theresa May asks European leaders to also expel Russian diplomats 'to dismantle the Kremlin network in Europe.' The British newspaper The Guardian reported Thursday that May at the European summit on Thursday and Friday warns that the Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a threat that can last for years. London has expelled 23 Russian diplomats.
The 28 EU leaders meet on Thursday and Friday in Brussels. Important topics for discussion are the American import levy on steel and the poison attack on the ex-doublespion Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England. The brexit and the euro zone are also discussed and possibly the Facebook scandal.
The use of an exceptional nerve gas, Novitsjok, to kill a former Russian secret agent, is madness according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Every expert in the field of chemical weapons knows that this leads to a lot of casualties at the place where the stuff is distributed, Vladimir Jermakov of the ministry said.
The board of directors of Cambridge Analytica has put CEO Alexander Nix on hold with immediate effect. That is what the British company, specialized in data analysis and direct marketing to influence elections for example, announced on its site on Tuesday. Alexander Tayler has been appointed as a replacement.
The ashes of the world-famous British scientist Stephen Hawking is buried at Westminster Abbey in the center of London. His remains are so close to those of Issac Newton (1643-1727) and Charles Darwin (1809-1882), reported the BBC.
Victoria Station in London was briefly vacated Tuesday afternoon because the fire alarm went off. The police and fire brigade quickly noticed on the spot that the false alarm was on which the doors opened again.
The 23 Russian diplomats who have been deported by Great Britain leave that country on Tuesday. British media reported that diplomats and their families have been picked up in vans at the embassy in London and are on their way to the airport.
The EU reached an agreement in principle with the United Kingdom on a transitional period following the British departure on 29 March 2019. The British will remain part of the customs union and internal market until 1 January 2021. During this period, EU citizens can continue to settle freely in Great Britain. For the border between Ireland and (the British) Northern Ireland after the brexit, both parties continue to look for a solution.
The claims made by the British government about the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal are defamatory and are based on nothing. London would have to prove it or apologize, a Kremlin spokesman said Monday. On the election day in Russia, Sunday, President Putin said that the allegations are complete nonsense.
Russian diplomats do not have access to the poisoned former spy Sergei Skripal. The Russian embassy in Moscow informed the news agency TASS. 'Our request was rejected because the British see him as a British citizen.'
The Russian ambassador in London has received an official diplomatic document stating that the former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter are in a critical condition. According to the ambassador, Great Britain hides further details, as he told the Russian news agency RIA on Friday.
The police in London deal with the death of the Russian exile Nikolai Garshkov as murder and a murder investigation has begun. The Russian died from 'pressure on the neck', according to a statement from the police Friday. This may indicate strangulation.
British Secretary of State Boris Johnson calls it 'overwhelmingly likely' that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally made the decision to use nerve gas for an attack on a former spy in Britain.
Detectives investigating the devastating fire in the London Grenfell Tower have revealed that the front door of one of the apartments on the lower floors, which did not fall prey to the flames, did not meet the safety requirements. The door that was tested should have stopped the fire for half an hour but collapsed after a quarter of an hour.
Russia will soon deport a number of British diplomats. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Russian state press agency Sputnik.
When Prince Harry and his betrothed Meghan look over the hedge in their garden, they see the home of Roman Abramovich, the owner of the London football club Chelsea and an accomplice of the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Oh yes, a few hundred meters away is the Russian embassy. And what about Igor Shuvalov, the Russian minister who bought a London residence a few years ago right in front of the Ministry of Defense?
The British reaction to the nerve gas attack on former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Yulia is not far enough. That said the widow of the 2006 Aleksandr Litvinenko poisoned in England, an ex-officer of the Russian security service FSB.
Prince Charles made a private visit on Tuesday at the headquarters of the British spy service MI5 in London. This can be seen from the Court Circular, the agenda of the British royal house.
While the tension between Russia and Great Britain continues to rise, the social media team of the Russian embassy still has time for a light joke on Twitter. 'The temperature of the relationship between us and Great Britain drops to-23, but we are not afraid of a little cold,' said the official account of the Russian representatives in London.
Great Britain warns its subjects who are already in Russia or go there: watch out for anti-British feelings and people who harass you, stay away from demonstrations and do not talk about politics.
Members of the British royal family and British ministers stay at home during the World Cup, which will be held in Russia in June and July. This was announced by British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday, along with a series of other measures, such as the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats.
The British decision to expel more than twenty Russian diplomats is, according to the Kremlin, a hostile act that is unacceptable, unjustified and short-sighted. The current leadership in Great Britain is responsible for the deterioration of British-Russian relations, according to the Russian Embassy in London.
The NATO countries are right behind London after the poisoning of a former double spy and his daughter in Salisbury. They are very concerned about the first nerve attack on NATO territory since the alliance began in 1949, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday in parliament. NATO member states call on Moscow to answer questions from the British government about the Russian chemical weapons program.
The British government wants an emergency session of the Security Council on the assassination attempt last Sunday in Salisbury, southern England, using a chemical weapon. The chemical developed in the Soviet Union is called novitsjok. London wants to inform the board about the investigation.
Russia has no interest in an attack on the former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal in southern England. The people who vote against Russia do, according to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov. And with that, the diplomatic conflict between London and Moscow on this issue is becoming increasingly widespread.
The Russian exile Nikolai Garshkov, who was friends with the late oligarch Boris Berezovski, was found dead in his home in London. That's what his lawyer said, reports The Guardian.
London refuses to give Russia the substance with which last Sunday the assassination attempt on the former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Joelia was committed. This said the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov. He stressed that the Russian government had nothing to do with the attack in Salisbury in southern England.
The Russian ambassador in London must explain the poison used in Southern England in an assassination attempt on a former Russian double spy and his daughter, Sergej and Joelia Skripal. This is what the British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday.
The Russian state television has accused England of being behind the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. That would give London a good excuse to boycott the World Cup, according to Dmitri Kiseljov, presenter of the Russian news program New of the Week.
The BBC is going to call on the United Nations to force Iran to stop the intimidation of BBC Persian staff in London and their families in Iran. According to the British broadcaster, the country is putting more and more pressure on employees of Iranian origin, for example through intimidation and travel bans. Family members are also arrested.
