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London (PA Media\/dpa) – Vladimir Putin has urged against interference in Russian-British relations after the head of MI6 described the nation as a \u00abdeclining power\u00bb and criticised the Kremlin’s \u00abreckless\u00bb behaviour.<\/p>\nLondon (PA Media\/dpa) – Vladimir Putin has urged against interference in Russian-British relations after the head of MI6 described the nation as a \u00abdeclining power\u00bb and criticised the Kremlin’s \u00abreckless\u00bb behaviour.<\/p>\n
The Russian President stressed on Friday evening that Richard Moore is \u00abnew\u00bb to the role as he suggested the spy chief would \u00abrevisit his assessments\u00bb of Moscow.<\/p>\n
Mr Moore, who became MI6’s \u00abC\u00bb in October, described Russia as an \u00abobjectively declining power economically and demographically\u00bb as he struck out against the Kremlin’s actions.<\/p>\n
Asked about the remarks in a press conference, Mr Putin said: \u00abYou said that the new head of MI6 has given these assessments, so he is new and I think he is going to get some experience and he will probably revisit his assessments (on) if Russia is a declining power.<\/p>\n
\u00abSo why bother, why be concerned, just live your life and don’t try to spoil the Russian-British relations further.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Speaking through a video link from St Petersburg, he said the UK and Russia had seen a growth in trade last year, adding: \u00abSo if you don’t try to interfere into this process then everything is going to be good.\u00bb<\/p>\n
In April, Mr Moore spoke of his continued anger about the Novichok attack in Salisbury, in which two alleged Russian operatives targeted Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy turned double agent for MI6.<\/p>\n
And the spy chief highlighted allegations that Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, was behind a blast at a Czech arms factory in 2014, killing two.<\/p>\n
\u00abWhen you get that pattern of reckless behaviour, of course you then look at what is happening around Ukraine and of course it worries us. It is why we have coordinated so closely with our allies to make sure we are getting firm messages back to President Putin,\u00bb he told Times Radio.<\/p>\n
Mr Moore also said the regime was under pressure as Russia faced a decline.<\/p>\n
\u00abRussia is an objectively declining power economically and demographically,\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n
\u00abIt is an extremely challenged place. And clearly the treatment of Alexei Navalny as we saw with the thousands of protesters on the streets of well – not just Moscow – of a number of cities shows that there is a deal of disaffection with Mr Putin.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Relations between Moscow and London have been particularly strained since the nerve agent attack on British soil in 2018.<\/p>\n
Mr Skripal survived but it killed 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess after she unwittingly sprayed herself with the chemical stored in a perfume bottle found by her partner, who was also left seriously ill.<\/p>\n
Accusing Russia of being a \u00abhostile\u00bb state, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has recently led a push for Nato to use political pressure to combat the threat from Moscow.<\/p>\n
Mr Raab has also said it is \u00abvery difficult to believe\u00bb the arrest of a prominent critic of the Belarus regime from a diverted Ryanair flight could have taken place \u00abwithout at least the acquiescence of the authorities in Moscow.\u00bb<\/p>\n
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