LONDON, March 4, (APP/AFP) – British Foreign Secretary
Boris Johnson is to travel to Russia in the coming weeks for
high-level political talks, his office said Saturday.
It will be the first time a British minister has been
to Moscow for an official visit in more than five years and
could signal a potential thaw in Anglo-Russian relations after
years of antagonism.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman stressed that the visit was
not a return to “business as usual”, saying Britain’s approach
to Russia was “engage, but beware”.
Relations with Russia soured after Britain sought to
prosecute suspects in the killing of Kremlin critic and former
spy Alexander Litvinenko, murdered by radiation poisoning in
London in 2006.