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On 9 December 2010, Yekaterina Zatuliveter filed an appeal against arrest and deportation to Russia ; in a statement released by her lawyer Tessa Gregory, Zatuliveter said British authorities had failed to provide evidence of her work not being " conducive to national security "; of MI5 she said: " I fully cooperated with them when they questioned me.

I have nothing to hide and was only doing my job as a parliamentary researcher.

" Also on that day, Alexander Sternik, Russia's chargé d ' affaires said of Hancock: " Mike Hancock is one of those people who are known to have a balanced objective and sympathetic approach towards the modern Russia and its foreign policy.

" Sternik also said that the Russian view of the affair was that Hancock was being targeted because he was a parliamentarian who " showed sympathy and understanding for the modern Russian state "; of Zatuliver's detention he said: " We have not received, although we insisted on this, any clarification as to the motives and the reasons that this detention was made.