13 August 2007
A close adviser to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has claimed that the UK’s foreign minister, David Miliband, had inherited a hatred of Russia from his Polish grandfather Samuel. Gleb Pavlovsky, leader of an influential think-tank, said Samuel fought against Russians during the turbulent 1920 and accused the MPs' grandfather, who died 40 years ago, of fighting under the command of Trotsky to kill Russians opposed to communism. The accusations are the latest incident in a diplomatic stand-off between Russia and UK over Russia’s refusal to extradite the man believed to be responsible for the murder in London, with radioactive material, of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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