Moscow,
\nBritish foreign minister Boris Johnson told his Russian counterpart on Friday there was \u201cabundant evidence\u201d of Moscow meddling in foreign elections, but said any Russian efforts to interfere in last year\u2019s Brexit referendum had fallen flat. On the first visit to Russia by a British Foreign Minister in five years, Johnson said he wanted to normalise UK-Russia relations, which were going through \u201ca very difficult patch\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201c… We can\u2019t pretend that they (the problems) do not exist, and that we share a common perspective on the events in Ukraine, or in the Western Balkans or … on Russian activities in cyberspace,\u201d said Johnson. He also said Britain had a duty to speak up for the LGBT community in Chechnya. Johnson\u2019s visit comes at a time when relations between London and Moscow are strained by differences over Ukraine and Syria as well as by allegations, which Russia flatly denies.<\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, \u201cJohnson recently made a statement that he had no proof that Moscow had meddled in last year\u2019s British referendum on leaving the European Union.\u201d \u201cNot successfully, not successfully, I think is the word,\u201d Johnson shot back, to which Lavrov replied: \u201cHe\u2019s scared that if he doesn\u2019t disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined at home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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