Ukrainian ambassador advises Russia’s London embassy staff to ring NHS mental health number after they said invasion was intended to STOP war Watch the moment the UN ambassador held up a bizarre... Read more »
Russian residential property purchases contributed an estimated £190 million in market value and £13.2 million in stamp duty tax last year, according to figures from Benham and Reeves. Some 82,305 residential property... Read more »
Labour has accused the Government of giving Russian oligarchs a “get out of London free card” by still allowing them six months before foreign-owned UK property needs to be registered under new... Read more »
Alissa Timoshkina was brought up on a “beautiful diet” of Ukrainian and Russian dishes. Growing up, she remembers her great-grandmother – a Ukrainian Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Siberia following the second... Read more »
As war rages in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion the UK government has been searching ever more desperately for ways to sanction the former Soviet Union. Russian oligarch interests in London is one... Read more »
Ministers are understood to be examining ways of speeding up the sanctions process, amid fears that targeting the government’s full hitlist of more than 100 Russian oligarchs could take as long as... Read more »
There have been social media messages calling for peace, an image of a murdered Russian opposition figure, a newspaper editorial demanding President Vladimir Putin “stop this war.” As Russian forces pound Ukraine’s... Read more »
The UK-based Russian billionaire oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven have had their shares in the $22bn (£17bn) conglomerate LetterOne, which owns Holland & Barrett, “frozen”, days after they were hit with... Read more »
A leading surveyor in London says the likely introduction of a register of overseas property ownership and sanctions making it difficult for Russians to purchase property in the UK will hurt only... Read more »
Russians have historically been prolific buyers of prime central London homes; however, Aston Chase report that North West London is now a hotspot for Russian buyers. In particular areas such as Highgate, Kenwood and Hampstead... Read more »
