In an apparent break with a tradition of providing refuge for Russian exiles, Britain has refused to grant former head of Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin political asylum. In an apparent break with a tradition of providing refuge for Russian exiles, Britain has refused to grant former head of Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin political...

... Scottishness to promote the U.K.-Russian business relationship. "If you can refer to cultural heritage then it helps, particularly when the political side breaks down," he said in an interview in the RBCC's Moscow offices. Diplomatic ties between Britain and Russia have been strained for years, but they reached a nadir after the 2006 polonium poisoning in London of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko and the Kremlin's refusal to extradite the main suspect in the case. While Thompson said...

Britain has joined the United States in taking steps to bar entry to Russian officials implicated in the 2009 jail death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced strengthened immigration rules in its annual human rights...

... London has sought to improve ties with Moscow, long frayed by the poisoning death of former Federal Security Service officer Alexander Litvinenko in London and demands from both sides to extradite suspects from Moscow and self-exiled Kremlin critics from Britain. The talks on Syria went relatively smoothly, with Lavrov hinting that Moscow could increase pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to abide by the peace plan forwarded by United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. "Of course we...

... of other world leaders to spell out the price Russia tragically pays for being semi-detached from the family of modern democratic nations," the paper quoted him as saying. Khodorkovsky allegedly wrote that preventing the officials from entering Britain would be something the British government could do to "raise the profile of human rights while hosting the Olympic Games." The list of officials was first presented to the U.S. Congress last year by opposition leader and former world...

... lists as the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The government-approved list includes world-renowned top-tier schools as well as obscure midlevel ones. Britain's Cambridge, Oxford and York universities and famous American institutions including Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology stand side by side with an assortment of U.S. state schools and outliers like Rensselaer Polytechnic...

... Bond wouldn't last four minutes in the real world." Melton, the author of several books on espionage including "Ultimate Spy," has spent decades gathering unusual spying gadgets from Germany, Russia, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the Czech Republic that explain what espionage is. "I have devoted most of my life to tracking down obscure bits of spy gear around the world," he said. The exhibition, which runs through March 2013, traces the world of international...

... law enforcement officials will stand trial for their actions. Our message is clear: No one stands above the law. Kazakhstan has much to learn from these events and our handling of them. We are studying the experience of the United States, France and Britain to see how they dealt with similar outbreaks of violence. The Los Angeles Police Department, for example, applied important lessons from the civil unrest of 1992, including new forms of community policing and partnerships with civic organizations...

... birthplace, I was born British, though admittedly not very British. "Birth in the district of West Mengo in the Republic of Uganda," records my birth certificate. We soon moved on, too. I grew up everywhere, and my children were born in Paris. Now Britain is refusing them citizenship. It seems my grandfather's 15 minutes in Manchester weren't sufficient to confer Britishness on generations of descendants. So when it comes to emigration, I'm biased. We Kupers are serial migrants. But it is objective...

... indie rock. Gogol. 8 p.m. Friday, May 18th Alina Orlova: covers, indie, ballads. ArteFAQ. 9 p.m. Anton Rumyantsev Quartet: jazz. Igor Butman Club Na Sokole. 8:30 p.m. Argishty: Armenian flutes. Dom. 8 p.m. Bosco Fresh Fest: Submotion Orchestra from Britain, Krasnoznamennaya Diviziya Imeni Moyei Babushki and Grisha Urgant from Moscow. Park Gorkogo. 8 p.m. Bubamara Brass Band: Balkan dance music. FAQ Cafe. 8 p.m. Chizh & Co. : rock from St. Petersburg. Milk Moscow. 8 p.m. Crazy Dance Session. FAQ...

... Town Cafe. 9 p.m. Unite It: from Brit pop to lounge. B2. 9 p.m. Vadim Ivashchenko and Boneshakers: r&b, rock, rockabilly, swing. Soyuz Kompozitorov. 8:30 p.m. Yoki: folk rock. Bilingua. 9 p.m. Friday, May 25th Andy Stott: electronic dance music from Britain. Hecq: IDM from Germany. Shestnadtsat Tonn. Midnight. Anna Levshina (jazz vocals) and the Yevgeny Grechishchev Trio. Igor Butman Club Na Sokole. 8:30 p.m. Ashanti (jazz vocals) and the Oleg Butman Trio. Igor Butman Club Na Chistykh Prudakh. 8:30...

Prince Michael of Kent, cousin of the queen, has received £320,000 ($514,000) from oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a Russian exile living in London. Prince Michael of Kent, cousin of the queen, has received £320,000 ($514,000) from oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a Russian exile living in London, The Sunday Times reported. The paper said that during the six-year period from 2002-08, a fund controlled by Berezovsky funneled 56 payments ranging between £5,000 and £15,000 through offshore...

... tycoon and former Kremlin kingmaker. At the time, Berezovsky denied ownership of the yachts. And in 2007, French authorities seized a $20 million villa from Berezovsky at Russia's asking. Russia has unsuccessfully sought Berezovsky's extradition from Britain on a variety of charges, including embezzlement of millions of dollars from state-owned airline Aeroflot and automaker AvtoVAZ. 179742

... be met with a … responsible approach by the U.S. administration and the U.S. president," Lavrov said, warning that the sanctions would undermine unity among the nations leading diplomacy with Iran — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. 179738

... the deaths of more than 100 people, including 49 children, following peaceful protests. The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Sunday afternoon to hear a briefing on the Houla massacre from the head of the UN observer mission in Syria. Britain and France had proposed issuing a council press statement condemning the attack on civilians and pointing the finger for Friday’s attack at the Syrian government. But Russia told council members it could not agree to any statement until...

... they still have by far the most nuclear arms — a fact stressed by the Chinese representative on Monday, the opening day of a two-week conference to discuss the Non-Proliferation Treaty, a 1970 pact to prevent the spread of atomic bombs. China, Britain and France are the other three recognized nuclear weapons states. But the size of their arsenals are in the low hundreds, well below those of the United States and Russia, which have thousands of nuclear warheads. Ambassador Cheng Jingye, head...

... Toyota Bank and Mercedes-Benz Bank. IKANO's finance division provides services such as sales-support solutions to retailers and other corporate customers. It also deals in direct lending and personal banking products for consumers. It also operates in Britain, Austria and Poland. 175768 179742

... rejected a request he had filed for further investigation into prison officials, Interfax reported. Investigators had accused two jail doctors of neglect in the case, but charges were later dropped against one because the statute of limitations ran out. Britain announced this week that it has adopted immigration rules that could also ban Magnitsky suspects. The new rules bar entry to foreign officials accused of human rights violations in their home countries. Last summer, the U.S. State Department said...

... professor of evolutionary genetics at University College London who wasn't involved with the research, said he believed that the methodology was sound. The research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was funded by Britain's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the German Academic Exchange Service and the London-based Leverhulme Trust. 179736

..., but there are plenty of people who like to jog. Q: Who do you expect to take part in the race? A: Anyone from the age of 14 can compete, and younger children can enter a small 50-meter race. We've had international competitors before: people from Britain, Italy, Poland and other countries. Some Russian champion runners will also be attending and running alongside the 1-kilometer runners to show that they support our charity and hopefully their presence will help to attract people to the sport...