The snubs make the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin one of only three national governments that were excluded from the funeral.
Around 500 foreign dignitaries are expected for the funeral on Monday in Westminster Abbey, which makes them the largest international meeting that Great Britain has organized for decades.
diplomatic sources said that it was “the equivalent of hundreds of state visits within two weeks. We usually only do that a few times a year.”
Every country with which the United Kingdom maintains diplomatic relationships was invited, with the exception of Russia, Belarus and Myanmar.
Diplomatic standstill
Iran is only invited at Ambassador level, which reflects the long -term diplomatic tensions about its nuclear program, the uncoveration of British double citizens and what the United Kingdom considers to support terrorism in the Middle East
The snub -against Russia reflects a state of almost complete diplomatic freezing between London and Moscow, since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February.
Belarus has not joined the war, but Russia has allowed itself to use its territory for the invasion and as a basis for firing rockets.
The Federal Foreign Office has imposed sanctions against dozens of high -ranking civil servants.
Mr. Putin waited several hours to send King Charles a short but polite condolences gram on the night when the queen died, in which he said that "rightly enjoyed the love and respect of her subjects and the high reputation on the world stage".
"It is difficult to imagine how much worse it could be"
dmitri Peskow, spokesman for the Kremlin, said when Liz Truss became Prime Minister, he hoped that relationships would "not deteriorate", and added: "It is difficult to imagine how much worse it could be."
Others in Moscow were less diplomatic. Margarita Simonyan, a close ally of Mr. Putin and head of the State Media Holding Russia Today, said on social media that she was frustrated that Russians are expressing her condolences. "It's not our loss," she wrote.
The relationship with Yangon has been bad since the military has overthrew the government of Aung San Suu Kyi through a coup in February 2021.
Last month the ruling Junta imprisoned a former British ambassador.
Vicky Bowman and her husband Htein Lin, a former political prisoner, were arrested in their house in Yangon last month after they were accused of violating immigration laws.
genocide of the Rohinga
Their arrest took place shortly after Great Britain had extended the sanctions against Myanmar's military junta on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the genocide of the genocide to the Rohinga in the Rakhine countries.
Great Britain exposed the diplomatic relationships with Iran for almost a decade after the 1979 revolution and again after Ayatollah Khomeni had published a Fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989.
The British message in Tehran was closed for two years after it was stormed by students in 2011.
Great Britain and North Korea in 2000 after 60 years without messages.
Kim Jong Un rarely travels abroad and will probably not participate.
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