First, the cornerstone of the internal affairs is a diplomatic.  Britain, the ruling government in the country Brown has faced a lot of difficult issues, such as the British citizen ID card leak, and so on, all these people have been deepened by the suspected Brown ability to govern, has also affected his support for the Labour Party.  Since the end of 2007, the Labor Party’s support rate has been lagging behind the largest opposition party, the Conservative Party nine percentage points.  Therefore, the Russian Brown, the Government can not weakness, because this will greatly damage the government’s image in the population.  Russia has a similar situation, the country will be held March presidential election, Putin recommended candidates elected Although Medvedev hopes high, but Putin is unwilling to make concessions to Britain, after all, and who are willing to national sentiment hard on the voters? Second, Russia and the West or covert “diplomatic standoff” is the background to the outbreak of this issue.  Russia and the West in recent ABM, Kosovo, NATO’s eastward expansion and so different positions on a range of issues, and the United Kingdom following the United States policy of the Russian side very angry about this.  In curbing Russia, the United Kingdom and sometimes Chongzaicuojianmian.  Therefore, the Russian Government in the “cultural war” in the head and the United Kingdom, but also a warning that the Western camp.

 Third, “to prevent infiltration of Western culture,” the Russian government is highly concerned about the issue, the incident is a reflection of this concern Russia.  January 16, the Russian media have done a national public awareness of an international investigation.  Investigations revealed that the majority of respondents to the Russian people have a feeling of superiority is embodied not only in geography, history and politics, but also in culture.  At present, Russia is still the West as “dissidents”, the Russian people of this national superiority collision with a foreign culture, it is inevitable on the exposed sparks.