Extinction Rebellion condemns a private jet service, K9 Jets, that transports wealthy people with their dogs, which this week ran its first flight from Dubai to London.
Worth remembering this extraordinary documentary - 'From #Russia with Cash' - about #Londongrad, the world's heart of Russian criminal money laundering operations.
British estates agents, solicitors and QCs colluding and actively helping Russian #oligarchs and criminals purchase #London properties, driving up prices, and keeping out #British people from their British capital.
The astonishing scale of these #corruption schemes the #UK government encourages.
So, now that Putin disbanded the Wagner Group and killed their leadership, the UK conservatives decided to declare the group a terrorist organisation. Good'un... The timing looks as if it could have been designed by Putin himself.
Suella Braverman - as always - too obsessed with persecuting vulnerable migrants and too weak to deal with big fish like russian oligarchs in the UK and terrorists like Wagner.
'Roman Abramovich, the most secretive of oligarchs'.
Having become extremely wealthy, the businessman developed a taste for collecting art. But he also financed creative artists in Russia, even those highly critical of Putin's rule.
A little digging shows that the #oligarchs continue to live a life of luxury in London, buying holiday homes in Thailand and freely travelling between the two in their private jets.
Meanwhile Russia continues to do big exports to the West (gemstones & precious metals) and big Western companies still operate in Russia (#Unilever, #Nestlé, #Auchun, #leroymerlin, etc.)
Roman Abramovich's life as a gentleman in Londongrad.
In the 2000s, the Russian businessman settled in the British capital. By buying Chelsea FC and forging friendships among the political and financial elite, he became an almost normal member of the British elite.