Thousands of tonnes of cod and haddock have been taken in Russian waters by British warships. Moscow claims that a 1956 agreement has been terminated in reaction to the UK’s sanctions against six individuals who were in charge of the prison colony where Alexei Navalny died.
In the most recent indication of the escalating hostilities between Moscow and the West, a 1956 deal permitting British vessels to fish in the Barents Sea was torn apart.
“The British need to study some proverbs – ‘Russians harness the horse slowly, but ride it fast,'” stated Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the parliament.
After informing lawmakers that “the unscrupulous British” had been consuming Russian fish for 68 years, he said, “Now let them get smarter and lose weight.”
The UK placed sanctions on six individuals in charge of the Arctic penal colony where the most vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny, passed away last week on Wednesday.
