From "Small Cold War" to Strained Relations

... The steady but politically difficult rapprochement between the two countries in 2010-2013 was unexpectedly interrupted by the Ukrainian crisis of 2014. The difference in perception of both what caused the crisis and how it can be resolved has not just ... ... in Europe, without affecting the problem of human rights violations in Russia while also protecting British sovereignty (the Litvinenko case), Great Britain started discussing cooperation and the problem of human rights abuses in Russia as two separate ...