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...Petersburg's BC office closed down yesterday, with all the Russian employees summoned to the FSB. At the end of the day, the Ministry of the Interior cops visited the Russian staffers at their homes to drive the message...
...Russians claim their sovereign right to have guests abide by local laws, accusing the BC of acting outside its official status due to tax and other irregularities. The Russian Foreign Ministry (MFA) ordered BC branches in Saint Petersburg and in Yekaterinburg in the Urals closed. They were the last remaining regional outfits of the erstwhile 15. The Moscow BC office has permission to carry...
...Such Russians range from students to university rectors and from library managers to theater and film directors. After Putin's eight-year rule, the majority of people will comply when Big Brother calls. For example, in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday, a crowd of students showed up outside the BC's office, demanding it closed. Sure enough, once the "vox populi" spoke, the Yekaterinburg BC branch shut down Thursday morning...
...Federal Security Service (FSB, heir to the KGB) tersely said on its website that it was conducting "explanatory work" with the BC's Russian staff with the aim of "protecting Russian citizens from being drawn into the Britons' provocative games as tools...
...Russians didn't comment on how exactly the FSB was "protecting them." However, The Moscow Times - an expat community English-language daily, quoted the St. Petersburg's FSB spokeswoman on Thursday claiming that the Russian staff had been told that the BC was operating illegally and that their employment might be illegal...