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.

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.”

  • @snaprails
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    323 months ago

    We should be fine, after all since Brexit we’ve plenty of happy contented British fish, right?

  • @anothermember@lemmy.zip
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    Fish consumption, of course, being a famous cause of obesity?

    Edit: Look, I’m making fun of the guy, I’m British, you don’t need to all take it upon yourselves to explain fish and chips to me.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    233 months ago

    So Kruschev did it, so it doesn’t count, but they should get Ukraine because of something that happened 1200 years ago?

    I’ve learned not to expect consistency from them but somebody there must see how ridiculous they look.

    • Optional
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      83 months ago

      Of course they see. It’s the saying that gets one defenestrated.

    • @Mrkawfee
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      At the risk of whataboutery, Jews claimed Palestine after 2000 years and no one in the West found that a preposterous reason to ethnically cleanse and commit genocide.

      • @JoBo
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        It is extremely convenient to have the Palestinians pay the price for Europe’s crimes. Logic and consistency have nothing to do with it.

          • @deft@lemmy.wtf
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            23 months ago

            seasonal considerations

            A nice way of saying with warmer climates weather becomes more intense and less predictable.

            The artic north sea route also isn’t what prevents them from using the port the entire year. It freezes, it will continue to freeze especially with the harsher cold snaps the globe faces.

            Again you don’t seem to understand climate change it is not “lol planet gets hot teehee”

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              83 months ago

              artic north sea

              When you have a deep understanding of the issue

              It freezes, it will continue to freeze

              No, the likely scenario is that maximal ice coverage will (continue to) recede noticeably.

              • @deft@lemmy.wtf
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                Lol okay you’re right Russia is immune to climate change. St. Petersburg definitely isn’t having flooding issues and Vladivostok didn’t get smashed by a freak ice storm that other places across the globe have also been smashed by

                None of that happened I guess climate change isn’t a problem

                • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                  83 months ago

                  smuglord

                  We’re talking about ports icing over, which will happen less as global temperatures rise. Bringing up other climate change problems (that are far from unique to Russia) does not change that.

  • @Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
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    193 months ago

    If that cunt Putin wants to get in the way of my fish suppers, he’s gonna get a face full of dandruff. The wee Dobby looking gobshite that he is. Someone give him a sock so he can fuck off!

  • GreatAlbatrossMA
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    It’s worth remembering that most things Russia says about the UK are for the domestic market.

    Like all the “turn the uk into glass” stories, barely mentioned here, but a frequent drumbeat on Russian TV.

    • anonochronomus [comrade/them]
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      153 months ago

      Pretty sure it’s the British fishing boats who are going home in this scenario. Or, of course the other classic British move of starting a naval war over fishing rights.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      123 months ago

      Seems like most countries would cancel this sort of arrangement with a country funding their opponent in a war

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      123 months ago

      West: Coups border country on Russian borders, pumps weapons into said country, gleefully profits off of ensuing war, sanctions Russia, repeatedly drums up how Russia would be better off glassed

      Russia: Alright then, no more fishing rights in our territorial waters.

      West: frothingfash

    • zkrzsz [he/him]
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      43 months ago

      Said right there in the post summary

      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.

  • nohaybanda [he/him]
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    143 months ago

    in the latest sign of growing tensions between Moscow and the West.

    They’re growing, are they? Cause from where I’m standing tensions have grown up, finished uni, settled down and recently had their second child

  • Deceptichum
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    It was known earlier among Russians as the Northern Sea, Pomorsky Sea or Murman Sea (“Norse Sea”);

    So the sea is historically Norse, and as know russia is big on respecting historical owners, thus that this sea belongs to the Norsemen.

    • @ns1
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      13 months ago

      Luckily all kinds of fish are still readily available in the UK. Thanks for your concern though