Boris Johnson spoke about the visit to Moscow in the 80s, “Kalinka” and the sundae in the Cup
Moscow. 22 Dec. INTERFAX.RU Minister of foreign Affairs of great Britain, Boris Johnson at the meeting with Russian students in Moscow remembered how in her youth, she sang “Kalinka” and ate the sundae in the Cup.
Earlier Friday, Johnson has called himself a Russophile and acknowledged the presence of Russian roots.
“I’m a Russophile, a staunch Russophile. I have ancestors in America, Germany, and, of course, here in Moscow. I am convinced that I am the first Minister of foreign Affairs of great Britain, whose name is Boris,” he said after talks with Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
UK doesn’t want new cold war with Russia, said Johnson.
“Those, whose childhood was spent during the cold war, knew the true horror of the era, and I don’t want a repeat of those times. I don’t want to start a new “cold war,” said he, speaking to students REU them. G. V. Plekhanov.
“I’m not a soldier of the cold war, we do not think the paradigms of the cold war: the blocks, the barriers are no longer applicable in the modern world”, — he added.