From "Small Cold War" to Strained Relations

... 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, replaced ... ... imprisonment, the Home Office officially banned 60 Russians from entering the United Kingdom in what was called Britain’s “Magnitsky list”. This testified to the UK’s determination to protect the interests of its business and its citizens ...