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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Washington insists that Australia will ruin its “deterrence relationship” with the US if it signs a landmark treaty The US has urged Australia not to sign a treaty seeking to ban all nuclear weapons, claiming the agreement will reinforce “divisions” between world powers, while failing to address “prevailing security threats” around the globe.