Boris Johnson outside St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow, yesterday. Russia’s foreign minister denied his claim that the country had interfered in the EU vote STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PABoris Johnson and Sergey Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, clashed over alleged Russian meddling in the EU referendum when they met in Moscow yesterday. The foreign secretary later tweeted a photograph of himself placing flowers at a makeshift memorial on the spot where Boris Nemtsov, a critic of President Putin, was shot dead near the Kremlin in 2015. The gesture fitted his promise not to shy away from disagreements with Moscow despite hopes for a better relationship. The meeting came as Stanislav Yezhov, an alleged Russian spy, appeared in court STEPAN FRANKO/EPAMr Johnson, 53, insisted after…

Source: The Times December 23, 2017 00:03 UTC