Well, well... This is a lesson for a child called Milliband to bite as much as he can chew. Or pick the battle he can fight, not to mention to win. What did he expect? Russia to change constitution to extradite Lugovoi? Russia to accept insulting claims that it hasn't courts fair enough to try Lugovoi? Russia to accept refusal to provide or publish evidence against Lugovoi? Russia to accept refusal to extradite Berezovski and Zakaev? Russia to accept refusal to close BC offices when told so?
Britain was begging for it for the last year or so and Milliband got what he was asking. Watch when big British companies will start feeling "The Cold War" Milliband is crying about. The current British policy toward Russia is completely senseless and out of touch with reality. Russia won't even think about improving relations with Britain while Milliband is in the office. He is simply too in-experienced. He may have a blog on the Internet, but this doesn't make him any smarter.

Oleg, Toronto, Canada

In the late 19th century, Russian Prime Minister Count Sergey Witte proposed the United States of Europe with Russia, Germany and France at its core. One of Lenin’s works was called: Against the United States of Europe. When asked about UK, Witte said: But UK is an American state, isnt it?

Its time for Russia to stop its Leninist tactics and built Russo-Franko-German cultural alliance with pan-European cultural solidarity, as opposed to the UKs pro-pseudo-multiculturalists sentiments. Without its colonies, UK is not a dominant power anyway, while Russia has its big territory as an advantage.

Continental Europe - Unite! Ja-Ja! Hurray-hurrau! Da-da! God with us!

Peter, St Petersburg, Russia

Notwithstanding their fabled chess-playing mentality, the Russians really have no concept of the subtlety and spirit of compromise necessary to conduct rational international relations. After all, they never really learned how to be Internationalist, since Tsarist feudalism was followed directly by Communism, and then a very brief period of the current system: What should we call it....Mafia-ism? The rulers of these systems are men who can't abide contradiction or criticism.

Lindsay George Gray, Owen Sound, Canada

The "Free World" have no obligation to give russians a visa. But to give russian artists a chance to cooperate with other "free world" countries shuldn´t be stopped because of a new Tsar..

Waligorski, LOndon,

The Russian Bear is waking up and flexing her will, hear her roar and watch the west tremble, she is asserting herself into a dominant role once more but for good or for ill of all?

DT, Dublin,

Can we swap him for his dad?

gwilym rhys-jones, costa del sol, spain

Why not close the British Embassy units there [St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg] too, send them all onextended leave at least? It might be a nice 'cost cutting' exercise in the end, and who, apart from a few people in the Foreign Office would really care?

S. Barraclough, Huddersfield, W. Yorkshire

Welcome to Putinostan. The Western countries MUST support the UK in this ridiculous spat with steel-headed Russians. The Americans, the German (especially - they would love to make a business with this rogue communist state ) and not at last the French. Please do not behave like an EMU, but stand firm behind the Britain!!

yanko, stgallen, CH

Free Iraq, Free Afganistan, Free Kosovo, free tanks destroying Russian Parliament in 1993 - do you mean this by "free" world?

Po, Moscow,

....and as Her Majesty the Queen is the Patron of the BC, which was founded by Royal Charter, the actions of the Russian authorities amount to a grave insult.

Walter R., Kyiv, Ukraine

If you Play with a Snake in the Grass, you will eventually get bitten, you (UK Goverment) knew what a deviant putin is, serve your right, its the wise one who sees the calamity coming, only the fool must pay the price.

Phillip Jones, Swansea, Wales

Igor, Yekaterinburg, Russia
You are naive and very young. Otherwise you would remember Yeltsin's years: chaos and hunger. Nobody stops you to go and travel. Get a visa, buy a ticket and see the "FREE WORLD" first before making hasty conclusions. And don't be surprised if the "FREE WORLD" woun't issue you a visa. Or when you get there you won't be able to work legally and end up washing dishes for peanuts. For some reason "FREE WORLD" didn't arrange visa-free travel for Russians with your beloved Yeltsin, nor would "FREE WORLD" allow Russians to work while travelling. Guys like you are only needed for some "colour revolution" after that they are treated by "FREE WORLD" with contempt and suspicion. I suggest starting your tour from UK, good luck getting a visa there!

Oleg, Toronto, Canada

I`m living in Yekaterinburg.
It`s a big shame and crime what FSB & Mr.Putin doing.
All that Boris Yeltzin have done for FREE RUSSIA is destroyed by KGB.
I like England, I`m deeply respect this free country,
I hope that we would be living in ONE BIG FREE WORLD someday.

Igor, Yekaterinburg, Russia