David Cameron in Russia: aiming high in trade talks, despite warning

PM hopes to seal £215m in deals for UK but is urged by former foreign secretaries to raise corruption with Putin and Medvedev Downing Street intends for £215m worth of deals to be done between Russia and the UK when the prime minister visits the Kremlin, despite a warning to David Cameron from four former foreign secretaries that business people already operating in the country are “victims of an increasingly potent mix of corruption and lawlessness”. In advance of Cameron’s visit, the first face-to-face contact between a British prime minister and the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, since 2007, No

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