The British Council will work in the Russian regions over the Internet

The British Council will provide residents of the Russian regions access to its services on the internet, told RIA Novosti press-secretary of the headquarters of the British Council in London.

On Thursday, chief executive of the British Council, Martin Davidson said that in connection with the claims of the Russian authorities to temporarily close the Council offices in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, leaving only run the head office in Moscow. According to the British Council in 2007, his services have been used about 1 million 250 thousand inhabitants of the Russian Federation.

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On the eve of this as saying in Parliament and the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. The Moscow office, said he would try to extend its activities as widely as possible to minimize the damage from the closure of regional offices.

According to Miliband, ' The British Council is already firmly entrenched in the Internet ', and offers access to its services, regardless of whether there is office of the organization in a particular city.

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