Nashi youth group member carries a portrait of British Ambassador Tony Brenton at a demonstration in front of the British Embassy in Moscow, December 5, 2007.
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Nashi Ask Queen to Recall Ambassador
Fifty members of the Nashi pro-Kremlin youth movement demonstrated outside the British embassy yesterday demanding that Ambassador Tony Brenton be recalled. “We waited until the end of the elections and came especially to say to the ambassador that he should respect the opinion of the Russian people.” The Nashis are indignant over the expenditure of £1 million on “fascists, thieves, frauds and the losers known as the Other Russia coalition,” Nashi press secretary Kristina Potupchuk said.
Brenton became a target of the group since speaking at the Other Russia conference in August of last year. When they demanded an apology from the ambassador for appearing at the conference and did not get it, they began picketing in front of the embassy. After a Nashi member was struck in the face by an embassy security guard, their tactics became more confrontational until the group's leader, Vasily Yakemenko met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in January of this year.
This time, the picketers gave a letter addressed to Queen Elizabeth II to an embassy guard. The letter complains about Brenton's spending of money on groups Nashi does not approve of and demands that he be recalled. Potupchuk said that this was a one-time action.
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