Cameron urged to confrontRussian ‘lawlessness’

DAVID Cameron has come under pressure from four former foreign secretaries to challenge the Russian regime on his visit to Moscow.

They have called on him to confront President Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin over failures to protect businessmen who are becoming “victims of an increasingly potent mix of corruption and lawlessness”.

Labour’s David Miliband, Jack Straw and Margaret Beckett, and Conservative Sir Malcolm Rifkind also called on the prime minister to raise the murder of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.

The letter says hundreds of thousands of Russian businessmen are detained in jails, victims of corruption sanctioned by the authorities.