MOSCOW (Aug 10): Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Theresa May have agreed to meet in "the near future", the Kremlin said Tuesday.

During a phone call initiated by London, the two leaders "planned to hold a private meeting in the near future," the Kremlin said in a statement, without naming a date.

British relations with Russia have soured in recent years, notably over efforts to prosecute the case of Kremlin critic and former spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was murdered by radiation poisoning in London in 2006.

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