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NEWS
Russia blames new UK PM for row
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6907630.stm

Mr Lavrov said Russian extradition requests had gone unanswered

Russia's foreign minister has blamed Gordon Brown's takeover as UK prime
minister for a row about extradition. Sergei Lavrov told reporters that each
new government needs "to find its own line" after assuming power. But he added
that he hoped common sense would prevail and that the situation was "moving in
that direction". Earlier, Russia said it will expel four UK embassy staff in
the dispute about Moscow's refusal to extradite a suspect over Alexander
Litvinenko's murder. On Monday four Russian embassy staff were expelled from
the UK and the visa facilitation process for Russian officials was suspended.
In retaliation, Russia said the four British embassy staff must leave the
country within 10 days, and Moscow is to review visa applications for UK
officials. 'Find its place' Speaking during a press conference at the end of
the Middle East Quartet's meeting in Lisbon, Mr Lavrov said it was up to Britain
to determine how long the crisis would last. He added:
"We understand that when a new government comes to power in any country, it is
seeking to find its place, so to say, seeking its own line. KEY
EVENTS IN CASE
1 November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko meets Andrei Lugovoi and another
Russian at a London hotel
23 November 2006: Litvinenko dies in a London hospital
24 November 2006: A Litvinenko statement accuses Russian President Vladimir
Putin of involvement in his death. Experts say Litvinenko was poisoned
6 December 2006: UK police say they are treating the death as murder
22 May 2007: Lugovoi should be charged with Litvinenko's murder, British
prosecutors say
28 May 2007: UK makes formal request for Lugovoi's extradition from Russia



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Russian media reaction

"Therefore, I can, to a large extent, see in what is happening also the factor
of a new government." Mr Lavrov condemned what he described as Britain's
refusal to co-operate with Russian extradition requests, and said that Russia
had responded immediately when the British authorities asked permission to send
investigators to Moscow last December. Similar Russian requests, he said, had
gone unanswered for months. Mr Lavrov said his government had still not seen
"actual documents" relating to the Litvinenko affair and consequently did not
know what had led the British authorities to regard Mr Lugovoi as a suspect.
Mr Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent who had taken UK citizenship, died of exposure to
radioactive polonium-210 in London in November 2006. Traces of the radioactive
isotope was found in several places visited by another former agent, Andrei
Lugovoi, who denies involvement. 'Mini crisis' UK Foreign Secretary David
Miliband said he was "disappointed" by
Russia's decision to expel British Embassy staff - a move he called a
"completely unjustified". But Russian President Vladimir Putin said he thought
both countries would overcome the "mini crisis". Under the European Convention
on Extradition 1957, Russia has the right to refuse the extradition of a citizen
and its constitution expressly forbids extradition. The UK has the right to
request Mr Lugovoi be tried in Russia, but the UK's director of public
prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, has already turned down the offer. The UK's
director of public prosecutions has recommended Mr Lugovoi be tried for murder
by "deliberate poisoning".























COMMENT
There can only be one interpretation of the choreographed dual expulsion of
4 diplomats cooked up by the UK and Russian Foreign Ministry mandarins and sold
to wet-behind-the-ears UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

We have witnessed a complete capitulation by a craven UK state terrified of
offending Putin.

New Prime Minister Gordon Brown has just given the green light to Putin to
send assassins after all his political enemies in Britain.

“Peace in our time” eh Gordon?

Appeasement it looks like. What is the alternative?

The diplomatic alternative would be to break off diplomatic relations with
Putin’s regime and to oppose Putin and his representatives being welcomed at any
of the international forums.

The British government should seek de-recognition of Putin’s government from
the United Nations, the NATO-Russian Partnership for Peace, G8 and any other
such international body.

Relations with Russia should be handled publicly via the international media
and officially by opening up channels to the Russian opposition, who should be
recognised formally as the only ones fit to speak for Russia.

That’s diplomacy but the British response should not be limited to diplomacy -
a military response is required.

The British military should return Putin’s assassination in full by carrying
out assassination attempts against the person of Putin himself wherever possible
when Putin ventures outside Russia - most easily on the territories of countries
allied to Britain or in Britain itself should Putin be so stupid as to come here
when we are after his blood.

Now that would be the British bulldog biting back!

Instead of unleashing the dogs of war, Prime Minister Brown has capitulated to
Putin’s international reign of assassination and terror - what a shame and what
a disgrace to Britain.

If Brown will not escalate this fake diplomatic ballet into a hot personal war
against Putin (but not against our Russian friends) he should resign or be
impeached and removed as Prime Minister.

Get Putin!


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