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For a month, the UK and its allies shadowed a Russian attack submarine and two spy submarines in the North Atlantic before the vessels eventually pulled back, Britain's defence minister John Healey said. Speaking at a press conference in Downing Street, he said that in recent weeks — even as attention was focused on the crisis in the Middle East — the UK, working alongside Norway and other allies, had responded to what he described as "increased Russian activity" in the Atlantic north of the UK. That activity, he said,…