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 ... ... Russia” [ 3 ]. Relations between Britain and Russia deteriorated amidst the general worsening of relations between Russia and the West, which followed U.S. President Barack Obama, and began to resemble a classic “proxy war” period of a bipolar ...