NEW STATESMAN Russian Ladies start lunching
Viv Groskop
Monday 28th February 2005 Observations on charity. The concept of nouveau riche first came to Moscow in the early 1990s. Stories flew around about the $2,000 pool table in a sports store that sold only when the price tag was hiked to $20,000. Then by the end of the decade came stealth wealth. A friend of mine, Viktoria, queen of hair extensions and killer manicures, developed a fascination for discreet but outrageously priced Harry Winston diamond stud earrings. Now, in the wake of Beslan and pensioners' protests over President Putin's welfare reforms, new Russia is in sombre mood and its zolotaya molodezh (gilded youth) are embracing "wealth guilt". |
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INDEPENDENT"New capitalists' head for the Moscow borough of London
By Terry Kirby Chief Reporter
08 February 2003 Once, Lenin and Trotsky arrived as exiles, to plot in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Later, White Russians fled to London from the Bolshevik revolution. After the downfall of Communism, the "new capitalists" of Moscow and St Petersburg bought into the property market, and mafia gangs sought control of the capital's drugs and vice rackets. |
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TELEGRAPH The Russians are coming Jonathan Este
22 October 2005 REVOLUTION is in the air. But it's not the salons of Moscow or St Petersburg that are in turmoil but the British capital - or, as it is fast becoming known among Russian expats, "Londongrad". |
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MOSCOW TIMES by Svetlana Graudt LONDON -- Aliona Muchinskaya, the founder of London-based Red Square PR, considers herself fortunate that she has never held a 9-5 job. The stars are smiling on her: She's got charm, good looks, a quick wit and an inexhaustible pool of contacts acquired after more than a decade of living abroad. |
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SUNDAY TIMES From Russia to live
By Philip Jacobson
February 29, 2004 Thousands of Russians have brought their fortunes and business acumen to London - and have made the city swing again. But are a corrupt few giving them a bad name? |
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