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One of the UK’s most senior spymasters will use a rare public intervention on May 14 to warn Russia that it risks becoming a “more isolated pariah” following the Salisbury nerve agent attack.

In a speech to security chiefs in Berlin, MI5 director-general Andrew Parker will accuse the Kremlin of “flagrant breaches of international rules” and warn that the Russian government is pursuing an agenda through “aggressive and pernicious actions by its military and intelligence services”.

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