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
    221·
    10 months ago

    Country with no warm water ports say what?

      • deftEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        This guy doesn’t understand climate change lol

          • deftEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            seasonal considerations

            A nice way of saying with warmer climates weather becomes more intense and less predictable.

            The artic north sea route also isn’t what prevents them from using the port the entire year. It freezes, it will continue to freeze especially with the harsher cold snaps the globe faces.

            Again you don’t seem to understand climate change it is not “lol planet gets hot teehee”

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              102·
              10 months ago

              artic north sea

              When you have a deep understanding of the issue

              It freezes, it will continue to freeze

              No, the likely scenario is that maximal ice coverage will (continue to) recede noticeably.

              • deftEnglish
                3·
                10 months ago

                Lol okay you’re right Russia is immune to climate change. St. Petersburg definitely isn’t having flooding issues and Vladivostok didn’t get smashed by a freak ice storm that other places across the globe have also been smashed by

                None of that happened I guess climate change isn’t a problem

                • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  102·
                  10 months ago

                  smuglord

                  We’re talking about ports icing over, which will happen less as global temperatures rise. Bringing up other climate change problems (that are far from unique to Russia) does not change that.

                  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    41·
                    10 months ago

                    Also like, Britain is islands and Russia is the largest country in the world. Who do you think is better equipped to handle rising sea levels? I know which has a LOOOOOT more inland.

                  • deftEnglish
                    2·
                    10 months ago

                    Okay? St Petersburg has an issue with flooding. I don’t know what you’re trying to convince me of lmfao it’s just the truth.

                    It is also the truth that Vladivostok got hit by a freak ice storm and their port freezes about 4 months out of the year.

                    Russia has always had struggles with ports. Climate change won’t save them and will actively harm them like everyone else. Climate change also is not flat warming, that’s what stupid people believe.

                    Why are you so insecure about those facts??

    • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      Careful, a few weeks ago I was told anyone saying “warm water port” is Russian.