A second-instance court in Moscow held ungrounded most of $7 mln tax claims to the British Council, a UK-based educational and cultural institution. Russian authorities closed Russian regional offices on the British Council in 2007, on the background of a diplomatic scandal related to the refusal of Russia to extradite to the UK Andrey Lugovoy, suspected of poisoning in London Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. Tax claims to the British Council followed in 2008.
http://lenta.ru/news/2009/08/20/council/
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