The head of the British Council will remain in Russia and will be able to perform the functions of the cultural adviser at the embassy, "Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today.
"He will be able to conduct programs and so on - this is a matter of distributing the functional duties of British diplomats. We have been suggesting British bring the organization's activities in line with the law for several years, there has been no reaction” TASS quotes Zakharova as saying.
