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UK Embassy in Moscow Endures Pickets
Roughly 30 activists of Pobeda (Victory) movement of youth are picketing the UK embassy in Moscow, Interfax reported.
In the escalating row of Russia and Britain, activists of Fair Russia’s Victory Movement are picketing UK embassy in Moscow to attract attention of the world at large.
“The purpose of action is to attract attention of general public in Russia and overseas to ungrounded anti-Russian campaign recently unleashed in the West. We also demand to respect Russia’s constitution,” said Yury Lopusov, who co-chairs the movement.
Roughly three dozens of rallying activists have unfolded banners and flags near the Britain’s stronghold in Russia’s capital. The intention of youth is surprisingly peaceful. The new generation wants to open a Friendship Alley, inviting the Brits to inauguration and planting a birch together with them.
The recently cold relations of Moscow and London plunged into the deep freeze once Britain announced deportation of four diplomats of Russia in response to the Kremlin’s denial to meet formal request for Lugovoy’s extradition. Britain regards former FSB officer Andrey Lugovoy the key suspect in polonium murder of another former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko. In addition to deportation, London halted the visa facilitation talks with Moscow.
Moscow’s response was similar in extent. The Kremlin ordered to expel four diplomats of Britain, stopped providing visas to British officials and banned British trips of Russia’s bureaucrats.
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