Brown fails to thaw 'deep freeze' with Russia

Gordon Brown seems to have made little headway with Russia's new president, Dimitri Medvedev, after their meeting at the G8 in Tokyo. Many differences of opinion remain between the two countries.

Relations between Britain and Russia remained "in the deep freeze" this week after Gordon Brown appeared to have made "little headway" in his first meeting with the new president, Dimitri Medvedev, at the G8 summit in Japan, said Philip Webster in The Times.

British-Russian relationships have deteriorated to their lowest point since the Cold War following Russia's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, the suspected murderer of the dissident Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. Within months of the murder, two British Council offices were closed and a row also broke out this summer over the control of the oil company TNK-BP. At least half of Brown's hour-long meeting with Medvedev was taken up with his complaints over these three issues.

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