Russia has accused the British Embassy's top trade official in Moscow of espionage, the British Foreign Office confirmed Friday.
The accusation appears likely to worsen Russian-British relations, already strained in part by the continuing fight for control at the TNK-BP oil producer, which is jointly owned by the British company and a group of Russian billionaires.
The British Foreign Office said the accused diplomat was acting head of U.K. Trade and Investment at the embassy and confirmed his name was Chris Bowers.
The espionage accusation was first made Thursday in a report carried by the Interfax news agency, which cited a source in Russia's …
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