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The first migrants to have been recorded landing in the UK by small boat as recorded by the government was on 31 January 2018 when seven people crossed in a single boat. [19] In 2018, 539 refugees and migrants "tried to reach Britain on small boats." Many were intercepted and returned to France. [20]
The Russian embassy in London, 1662 The Old English Court in Moscow – headquarters of the Muscovy Company and the residence of English ambassadors in the 17th century. The Kingdom of England and Tsardom of Russia established relations in 1553 when English navigator Richard Chancellor arrived in Arkhangelsk – at which time Mary I ruled England and Ivan the Terrible ruled Russia.
In early 2022 then foreign secretary Liz Truss turned her attention towards a build-up of Russian troops near the Russia–Ukraine border. [6] Truss supported a plan which declassified a large amount of intelligence on Russia, releasing it to the public for the first time in order to weaken the Russian government in the event of an invasion. [6]
HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland said on Tuesday that "thousands" of third-country migrants were waiting to cross the border onto its territory from Russia. Finland closed all crossings on its 1,340 km ...
The government accused those of siding with migrants as unwittingly helping hostile foreign powers. New walls and barriers now crisscross Europe as a result of migration and Russia's aggression ...
In January 2024, members of the self-exiled rock band Bi-2, who fled Russia after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and publicly denounced the war and Putin's regime, were arrested in Thailand for allegedly violating immigration regulations and faced possible deportation to Russia because some of its members have Russian citizenship.
The number of migrants attempting to cross into Finland is unusually high and Orpo's center-right government has accused Moscow of deliberately ushering migrants to the Russia-Finland border zone ...
Due to Russia's declining population, and the low birth rates and high death rates of ethnic Russians, the Russian government has tried to increase immigration to the country in the last decade; [5] which has led to millions of migrants flow into Russia from mainly post-Soviet states, many of whom are illegal and remain undocumented. [6] [7] [8]