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.”

    • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Are you actually retarded?

      This is what happened

      • jokes about Russian ports

      • you begin flailing your arms, shidding, crying and cumming about Russia

      also simp fuckin harder.

      So let’s break it down. First of all Russia has been saying for a decade that they’ll use climate change to their advantage, this is called PROPAGANDA. Because it just isn’t true or possible.

      Let’s check.

      Permafrost releasing Anthrax and causing infrastructure to literally fall apart? What do you do when the ground melts below you??

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/anthrax-outbreak-climate-change-arctic-circle-russia

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52977740

      On top of that Russia is heating 2.5 times faster than the rest of the world. So much so that entire villages are lost to flooding in Siberia. Russia also will only face more and more wildfires as temperatures increase and the conifer trees will be forced to retreat north.

      You mentioned them gaining more land to farm, untrue. Russia’s breadbasket is the case because of the soil. The soil they’d get from thawing will actually reduce the amount of useable land. Why? Because the soil in the north is acidic as fuck and not great for crops especially the ones Russia tends to grow.

      Excluding all of that. Climate change will increase the amount of fighting in the world which Russia kind of fuckin sucks at. Famines will happen, droughts will happen, heatwaves will happen, insects will swarm and flooding will increase (snow/ice melt doesn’t matter about the elevation like you stupidly and oh so ignorantly suggested)

      So basically you just don’t know what you’re talking about and trying to push old Russian propaganda that they’ll use climate change to their benefit. Literally the lessening dependency on oil is leaving Russia in a bind right now and shit barely began.

      Go be stupid somewhere else now.