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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/russia-makes-spy-sabotage-claims.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Katia Zatuliveter had been working for Portsmouth South MP Mike Hancock" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-russia-makes-spy-sabotage-claims.jpg" alt="Katia Zatuliveter had been working for Portsmouth South MP Mike Hancock"/></a></p>
<p>Russia has accused &#8220;influential forces&#8221; in the UK of trying to sabotage relations between the two countries.</p>
<p>Responding to the arrest and detention of alleged spy Ekaterina Zatuliveter, the Russian foreign ministry urged Britain to prove with &#8220;concrete acts&#8221; its commitment to improving co-operation between London and Moscow.</p>
<p>Miss Zatuliveter, 25, is facing deportation from the UK amid suspicions that she used her position as an assistant to MP Mike Hancock to pass documents to Russian intelligence.</p>
<p>Russian diplomats have been pressing for information from the Foreign Office and Home Office about why she is being held.</p>
<p>In a sign of Moscow&#8217;s anger at her treatment in the UK, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement: &#8220;As for the eagerness with which some media in the UK are trying to stage a vaudeville about the worn-out spy plot, this cannot fail to awaken pity.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have no illusions that in Britain there are and will be highly influential forces, who are not interested in the normalisation of Russian-British relations.</p>
<p>&#8220;We hope, however, that the London Government&#8217;s stated policy of improving bilateral co-operation will be reinforced by concrete acts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Alexander Sternik, Russia&#8217;s charge d&#8217;affaires in the UK, claimed that Britain had so far failed to provide information about the charges against Miss Zatuliveter.</p>
<p>Known as Katia, she has protested her innocence and says she is confident she will win an appeal against her deportation. </p>
<p>Her father, Andrei Zatuliveter, also criticised her treatment. &#8220;I always thought that England was a democratic country. People cannot be detained for no reason,&#8221; he told the BBC.</p>
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