The Russians fluster:

“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. 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. We hope, however, that the London Government’s stated policy of improving bilateral co-operation will be reinforced by concrete acts.”