Russia's foreign minister has suggested Britain should drop "Great" from its name and compared the country to Gaddafi's Libya. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday: "I think that Britain should be called simply Britain because 'Great Britain' is the only example of a country which calls itself 'Great'." He mentioned the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" - Libya under the authoritarian rule of Muammar Gaddafi - as another example of a