RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan. 14, 2008
TODAY: Medvedev on tour; the British Council continues to defy orders from the Russian government and the UK ambassador has been summoned by the foreign ministry; Russia to boost overseas image; Russia and Ukraine are keen for economic cooperation; Russia’s super-rich in the UK press. “We must revive the Navy,” said First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev during a visit to a fishing trawler in the Barents Sea port of Murmansk, saying he hoped that Russia would become “a full-fledged naval power.”