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.

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The country’s military intelligence directorate said that the messenger may pose a security threat The Ukrainian parliament’s Freedom of Speech Committee has called for a ban on the messaging application Telegram, describing it as a threat to national security.