Feb. 2022, Open Democracy :
"Revealed: The lobbyist who helps Russian elites get access to Boris Johnson
Former Russian politician Sergey Pechinin tells his clients: ‘We open closed doors’"
"Revealed: The lobbyist who helps Russian elites get access to Boris Johnson
Former Russian politician Sergey Pechinin tells his clients: ‘We open closed doors’"
" In 2018 he tried to donate £2,400 to the party, but the money was rejected: Pechinin was labelled an “impermissible donor” because officials were unable to prove he was on the UK electoral register."..
opendemocracy.net
opendemocracy.net
"His firm, Realia EM Ltd, went on to successfully give £4,000 last year to the Carlton Club, an elite private members’ establishment in Mayfair that has given almost £1m to the Conservative Party – prompting concern about ‘dark money’ in British politics"
"In recent years, Pechinin has met some of the most senior figures in British politics, including David Cameron, Theresa May, Liz Truss, Sajid Javid, Zac Goldsmith, Jeremy Hunt, Oliver Dowden, Conor Burns and Liam Fox."
"His company Realia Family Office caters for wealthy Russian clients and has phone numbers in London and Russia..A page on the one of the company’s websites that displays only in Russian adds that clients “have the opportunity to get exclusive access to private events at
Goodwood for a narrow circle of people”, such as a “ball surrounded by members of the royal family, UK ministers, industry leaders and associates of the US president. Its corporate partners include Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank.”.
"More than a quarter of the 430 homes in St George’s Hill, a heavily guarded 964-acre estate near Weybridge, Surrey, are owned by Russians and those from former Soviet state, according to The Guardian."
express.co.uk
express.co.uk
"Johnson has so far announced sanctions on more than 100 Russian companies and eight individuals in what he described as “the largest and most severe package of economic sanctions that Russia has ever seen”."..
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"It comes as Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club, has come under scrutiny for his links to Putin.".. 🍿
Plenty of Russians in Antibes too. Just sayin' 🤫
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