From "Small Cold War" to Strained Relations
... impetus to bilateral dialogue. Keen to promote economic cooperation with Russia, which was important for the UK amidst the crisis 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 issues. The Litvinenko case, which had been the main obstacle to improving British-Russian relations in 2013, had all but vanished,...
02.03.2015