Maria Shukshina and James Norton star in McMafia, which has been branded clichéd and misleading NICK WALL/BBCThe BBC’s exploration of the criminal underworld has found an enemy — the Russian embassy in Kensington. McMafia, the acclaimed drama starring James Norton, is a crime against truth, the controllers of the embassy’s Twitter account have claimed. It is clichéd and misleading, the embassy has asserted, claiming that it has wrongfully depicted Britain as being a “playground for Russian gangsters”. The embassy’s account, which has earned a reputation for provocative comments on British attitudes and cultural wares, asked its followers to guess how many “Russian offenders there are actually in UK jails”. The account stated: “Crime rate among Russians in UK is well below national average.

Source: The Times January 08, 2018 01:07 UTC