[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] concerns a US banker who in a meeting with one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought […]
[PDF file]: […] . 14 In 2021 the Channel 4 Dispatches programme secretly recorded his business partner, the Marquess of Reading, offering to use the Prince’s supposed relationship with Vladimir Putin to benefit a fictitious South Korean company, for a fee of $200,000. Nikolai Kirillovich Romanov (AKA Prince Kark Emich of Leingen) is recognised by the Russian […]
[PDF file]: […] the U.S. as ‘the 11 Marshall’s note at the end of that paragraph is this: 18. Barrett, Trump, 131, 195–201; Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (New York: Dutton, 2018), 24–25; Robert O’Harrow Jr., “Trump Swam in Mob-infested Waters in Early Years […]
