Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Britain should no longer be called Great Britain as it was the only country in the world to officially name itself "Great".

Axar.az, citing Reuters, that Lavrov told reporters as he spoke about colonialism following comments on Greenland.

"I think that Britain should be called simply Britain because 'Great Britain' is the only example of a country which calls itself 'Great'."

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is usually called "Velikobritaniya", or Great Britain, in Russian.

As the U.S. under Donald Trump seeks to reset ties with Moscow and broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, Britain has been granted the status of Russia's public enemy number one.