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Russia says Britain should no longer be called 'Great' Britain
short by Saurav Joshi / on Tuesday, 20 January, 2026
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday said that Britain should no longer be called 'Great' Britain because it is the only nation that calls itself 'Great'. Lavrov stated that another example of a country that called itself "great" was the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" led by Muammar Gaddafi, but it no longer exists.
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