Introducing: Londongrad

Introducing: Londongrad

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Londongrad episode 1: The advance party

Britain prides itself on being impregnable; a country which hasn’t been invaded for 1000 years and can’t be bought. The Lebedevs give the lie to all that. They spent a lot, but not a fortune, buying their way into British public life. And they did it in a way which perhaps nobody ...  Show more

Londongrad episode 2: The Royal Borough of Kensington and Moscow

The oligarchs who made their way to London in the early 2000s and changed it presented themselves as embodiments of the new Russia; members of the global elite, and arms-length beneficiaries of Vladimir Putin’s new order, not slaves to it. Those were the terms on which Britain le ...  Show more

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