Word: russianize
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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...
...British defied the orders, saying that they operated quite legally based on the Russian-British agreement of 1994, and reopened the Yekaterinburg office on January 9, right after the New Year break was over, while St. Petersburg's office resumed operations this Monday. However, by Thursday morning, both shut down under pressure...
...British-Russian relations have seriously soured since 2006, when the former KGB/FSB officer-turned-dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London with polonium-210, and the Brits demanded extradition of their prime suspect, Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi. Citing the Constitution, the Kremlin turned down London's demands - and promptly elected Lugovoi as a Duma member on the ballot of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's rabble-raising nationalists...
...Another Russian diplomat, when asked to comment upon the MFA's statement threatening "coercive" actions to have the British Council's regional offices closed, just shrugged: "No need posting a cop at the gate to turn people away. A phone call to those Russians who cooperate with the British Council, appealing to their civic duty, will suffice...
...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...