Lobster Issue 88 (Winter 2024)
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[PDF file]: […] a ‘reputation laundering’ process. In brief, Russian influence in the UK is ‘the new normal’, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene, and accepted because of their wealth. This level of integration – in ‘Londongrad’ in particular […]
Lobster Issue 88 (Winter 2024)
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[PDF file]: […] has even been accused of being ‘an undercover espionage agent with partner, Beyonce Knowles’, protecting the real Tupac Shakur, who is not dead but working for Vladimir Putin. Most hilariously, she has been accused of being the leader of various cults – including the Blue Oyster Cult, actually an 80s rock band – which […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Projects at the Finance Committee of the City of St Petersburg – in which role it seems reasonable to assume she would have known and met Vladimir Putin, then beginning his rise to global significance in that city. Calvert 22 is sponsored (the exact wording used is ‘strategic partner’) by VTB Capital, an investment […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] are weighing the possibility that the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a botched attempt by extremists in the Ukrainian government to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin whose aircraft was returning from South America the same day, according to a source briefed on the U.S. investigation.’ 27 We shall see; but, given his […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] I was brought up on briefly went BNP. While he was an MEP he, along with much of the international Far Right, declared their admiration for Vladimir Putin as an enemy of liberalism and the saviour of Christianity. At the same time, he was also supporting the Asad regime in Syria, invited to praise […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] no longer demonic. National leaders use it to talk to their people, offering in the process a snapshot of their society’s different levels of development: Prime Minister Putin showing off his biceps; intelligence chief Sawers photographed by his wife in his speedos. 125 Winter 2010 its annual conference included Alexander Lebedev, the Russian proprietor […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the emerging information.2 Soon after that, the bombing of the theatre became international news. Within hours of the incident, US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘a war criminal’ for the first time.3 Ukraine has consistently blamed the destruction on a Russian airstrike,4 while Russia has consistently accused Ukrainian forces of destroying […]