Russia declares the British Council as a « unwanted organization » / day

The Russian Attorney General accused the British Council of trying to promote Britain’s interests in « under the guise of English language » and supports the « LGBT movement », which Russia has banned as « extremist ».

« Various projects are being implemented to systematically discredit the domestic and foreign policy of the Russian Federation, » says the Attorney General.

Moscow has proclaimed dozens of West -backed organization « unwanted », which prohibits their activities in Russia, but those who work there are threatened with prison sentence.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has provided « evidence » to the decision and called Britain « the main source of global crises, provocateur and warfare, » local media reports.

For years, the Kremlin has been against civil society, with organizations being announced outside the law, pursuing activists and critics of power, slipping into prisons and killing.

Moscow had seriously damaged the relations with London for a long time before Russia’s full -scale invasion of Ukraine.

Russian agents with Polonia in London in 2006 poisoned the Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, but in 2018 in Salisbury, he tried to poison the former double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury with the chemical weapon « Novichok ».

Britain is one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine in its war with Russia.

The British Council is a cultural and educational organization funded by the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, operating in more than 100 countries, offering to acquire knowledge of Britain and English.