Russia\u2019s embassy in London is warning that Russians travelling to the United Kingdom could face provocations, including the insertion of foreign objects into their luggage. The warning, posted on the embassy website, said it reflected \u201cthe anti-Russian policy, the growing threatening rhetoric of the British side (and) the British government\u2019s selective actions against Russian individuals and legal entities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Britain accuses Russia of involvement in the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury, which Russia heatedly denies.<\/p>\n
Each country has expelled 23 of the other\u2019s diplomats and Russia has further ordered Britain to reduce its staffing at the embassy in Moscow to the same level Russia maintains in London.<\/p>\n
Tension escalated further late yesterday when British officers searched an Aeroflot passenger plane at Heathrow airport.<\/p>\n
The Russian statement said \u201cwe urge the close monitoring of personal belongings and luggage in order to avoid provocations with foreign objects being placed in them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The British government is considering Russia\u2019s request for access to the daughter of a former Russian intelligence officer who were both poisoned in Britain by a nerve agent.<\/p>\n
The Foreign Office say today it was reviewing the Russian request to meet with Yulia Skripal, a Russian citizen, \u201cin line with our obligations under international and domestic law.\u201d The government\u2019s consideration will include \u201cthe rights and wishes of Yulia Skripal,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
British Prime Minister Theresa May has blamed the Russian government for the attack on the Skripals, a charge denied by the Kremlin. May has received strong backing from the US and her allies in Europe, which have accepted Britain\u2019s view that the Russian government was responsible for the use of a lethal nerve agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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