Celebration like a Russian no extra
For most of this century, wealthy Russians have thrown bundles of money at London’s faculties, legislation companies, personal members golf equipment, and “superprime” residences and mansions.
And town held out its arms, changing into often called “Londongrad” because of high-rolling clusters of Russians within the leafy environs of Hampstead and Kensington, in addition to the central London squares of Mayfair and Belgravia.
According to Sivertimes Russians have been as soon as a uncommon species in London. But after 1994, when the UK authorities launched “golden visas” – first granted for investing no less than $1.3 million within the UK, later elevated to $2.6 million— Russian cash started to trickle in, till one man triggered a flood.
In 2003 Roman Abramovich, an oil...
