Prime Minister Theresa May disappointed opposition activists in Russia on Wednesday by ignoring their calls to sanction Russian businessmen and officials close to President Vladimir Putin in retaliation for the attempted murder of a former spy in the English city of Salisbury.
Instead, May told Parliament, Britain’s main response to the poisoning of the former double agent Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, would be the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats identified as “undeclared intelligence officers.” The prime minister also stopped short of announcing a boycott of this summer’s World Cup, saying instead that members of the British royal family would …read more
Source: The Intercept
