Moscow says a 1956 agreement has been axed in response to the UK's sanctions on six people in charge of the penal colony where Alexei Navalny died.

A 1956 agreement that allowed British boats to fish in the Barents Sea has been ripped up, in the latest sign of growing tensions between Moscow and the West.

The fishing deal was signed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, but Russian politicians have now claimed it was never in the national interest.

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Russia’s parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said: “The British need to study some proverbs - ‘Russians harness the horse slowly, but ride it fast’.”

He told politicians that “the unscrupulous British” had eaten Russian fish for 68 years - declaring: “Now let them lose weight, get smarter.”

  • deftEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Apparently a bunch of bullshit if you believe what you said lol

      • deftEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        So you believe in a literal sense all the maps drawn in the west that still call Crimea a part of Ukraine?

        Sevastopol belongs to Ukraine.

        Crimea belongs to Ukraine.

        What the fuck are you talking about