Western hostility doesn’t mean Russia should behave like Ukraine, the foreign minister has said Russians should not give up the English language just to spite the West in the way Kiev ditched Russian to spite Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Moscow on Thursday.

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree granting the right to obtain Russian passports to foreigners who sign up for service in the country’s Armed Forces or other military units during the Ukraine conflict, the Kremlin reported on its website on Thursday.

The anti-dumping investigation follows Brussels’ own probe into a “flood” of cheap Chinese electric vehicles China has begun an anti-dumping investigation into the import of competitively priced brandy from the European Union, the country’s commerce ministry announced on Friday.