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Russia's closure of British Council offices outside of Moscow late last year has been condemned as "unacceptable" by UK peers. The House of Lords European Union committee accused the Russian authorities of targeting the British Council in order to force the UK to give way on unrelated foreign and...
By James Kilner MOSCOW (Reuters) - Andrei Lugovoy, the poisoning suspect at the centre of a diplomatic row between Britain and Moscow, will join fans supporting Chelsea at Wednesday's all-English Champions League final. Police reported no trouble as thousands of supporters arrived for the match...
Rival Champions League Final chief executives David Gill of Manchester United and Chelsea's Peter Kenyon have made themselves the leading candidates for England's 2018 World Cup bid management board by their performances off the pitch in Moscow. Clap happy: Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon...
A football supporter mocks Russian police as they walk by the Luzhniki stadium MOSCOW (AFP) - Thousands of excited English football fans thronged Moscow on Wednesday for the Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester United, where one of Britain's most wanted men was also expected....
In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko died after drinking poisoned tea in a London hotel. Andrei Lugovoi, however, says he can't even remember whether he ordered tea during his fateful encounter with Litvinenko on November 1 2006: "I remember drinking whisky or gin," he says. Almost 18 months after...
