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.”

  • @anothermember@lemmy.zipEnglish
    27•9 months ago

    Fish consumption, of course, being a famous cause of obesity?

    Edit: Look, I’m making fun of the guy, I’m British, you don’t need to all take it upon yourselves to explain fish and chips to me.

  • @snaprails@feddit.ukEnglish
    23•9 months ago

    We should be fine, after all since Brexit we’ve plenty of happy contented British fish, right?

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    23•9 months ago

    So Kruschev did it, so it doesn’t count, but they should get Ukraine because of something that happened 1200 years ago?

    I’ve learned not to expect consistency from them but somebody there must see how ridiculous they look.

    • OptionalEnglish
      8•9 months ago

      Of course they see. It’s the saying that gets one defenestrated.

    • @Mrkawfee@feddit.ukEnglish
      6•9 months ago

      At the risk of whataboutery, Jews claimed Palestine after 2000 years and no one in the West found that a preposterous reason to ethnically cleanse and commit genocide.

      • @JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        It is extremely convenient to have the Palestinians pay the price for Europe’s crimes. Logic and consistency have nothing to do with it.

  • @Colour_me_triggered@lemm.eeEnglish
    19•9 months ago

    If that cunt Putin wants to get in the way of my fish suppers, he’s gonna get a face full of dandruff. The wee Dobby looking gobshite that he is. Someone give him a sock so he can fuck off!

  • GreatAlbatrossMEnglish
    13•9 months ago

    It’s worth remembering that most things Russia says about the UK are for the domestic market.

    Like all the “turn the uk into glass” stories, barely mentioned here, but a frequent drumbeat on Russian TV.

  • Deceptichum
    12•9 months ago

    It was known earlier among Russians as the Northern Sea, Pomorsky Sea or Murman Sea (“Norse Sea”);

    So the sea is historically Norse, and as know russia is big on respecting historical owners, thus that this sea belongs to the Norsemen.