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.”

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            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”

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              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.

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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

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                  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.