British ambassador and deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation discussed problems in the relations of the two countries

The state secretary, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin and the British ambassador to Moscow, Anthony Branton, discussed bilateral relations that worsened due to the Litvinenko case.

"On the third of August, the State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Karasin, adopted British Ambassador in Moscow at his request. During the conversation, relevant international problems were discussed, including the development of the situation in the CIS space, as well as some issues of Russian-British relations," the statement posted on Saturday on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

After Russia refused to give the UK entrepreneur Andrei Lugovoi, whom the British accuse Alexander Litvinenko of involvement in the murder of the ex-ownership of the FSB of the Russian Federation, London decided to send four Russian diplomats and freeze negotiations to facilitate the visa regime. In response, Russia decided to send four British diplomats.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that the settlement of the diplomatic conflict between Russia and Great Britain depends on the British side.

He also said that the British never presented Russia with any materials confirming the guilt of the meadow.

The representative of the press service of the British Foreign Ministry, commenting on Lavrov’s words, told RIA Novosti that the UK will continue to seek from Russia to issue a meadow.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation motivates a refusal to extradite meadows by the fact that the country's constitution prohibits the issuance of Russian citizens to foreign states.