Moscow says a 1956 agreement has been axed in response to the UK's sanctions on six people in charge of the penal colony where Alexei Navalny died.

A 1956 agreement that allowed British boats to fish in the Barents Sea has been ripped up, in the latest sign of growing tensions between Moscow and the West.

The fishing deal was signed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, but Russian politicians have now claimed it was never in the national interest.

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Russia’s parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said: “The British need to study some proverbs - ‘Russians harness the horse slowly, but ride it fast’.”

He told politicians that “the unscrupulous British” had eaten Russian fish for 68 years - declaring: “Now let them lose weight, get smarter.”

    • anonochronomus [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      183·
      4 months ago

      Pretty sure it’s the British fishing boats who are going home in this scenario. Or, of course the other classic British move of starting a naval war over fishing rights.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      142·
      4 months ago

      West: Coups border country on Russian borders, pumps weapons into said country, gleefully profits off of ensuing war, sanctions Russia, repeatedly drums up how Russia would be better off glassed

      Russia: Alright then, no more fishing rights in our territorial waters.

      West: frothingfash

    • zkrzsz [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      62·
      4 months ago

      Said right there in the post summary

      Moscow says a 1956 agreement has been axed in response to the UK’s sanctions on six people in charge of the penal colony where Alexei Navalny died.