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Jun 2022
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Londongrad episode 2: The Royal Borough ...

TORTOISE MEDIA
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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 let them in, but it was mugged.

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