Roman and Red Ken cause Russian poverty & falling life expectancy

London Becomes Haven for Russia's Robber-Barons
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone is engaged in a determined and successful
campaign to attract Russia's super-wealthy, the Guardian reported in an
article Tuesday.

Britain has become an offshore depository for Russia's robber barons, the
Guardian claims. Those who plundered the natural wealth of the crumbling
Soviet Union during the 90s "piratization" have ploughed their ill-gotten
gains into London life. Money that should be in Russian pension funds,
public salaries and supporting infrastructure is paying for private schools,
chauffeurs and chefs in southern England, the paper wrote.

Their spiritual leader is Roman Abramovich, the oil and aluminium
billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club. He is joined by his former
business partner and wanted defrauder of the Russian region of Samara, Boris
Berezovsky. Equally at home flitting between Surrey and the City are the
mineral billionaire Vladimir Potanin, metals magnate Oleg Deripaska, and oil
and gas speculator Chalva Tchigirinski. Given that so much of Russia's
wealth was given away to these oligarchs by the Boris Yeltsin
administration, it is appropriate that Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of the
former president, and her husband Valentin Yumashev have also made London
their base.

What attracts the Russian rich is favorable tax planning, the financial
services sector, and a stable of corporate law firms for the endless
litigation that pursues them. They also like the history and heritage of
Britain along with high society's no-questions-asked approach to fabulous
new money.

However, the Guardian suggested the arrival of the super-wealthy in London
may not be good for the city. First of all it is distancing the capital from
the rest of the country, since London as a metropolitan appears to have an
ever more distant relationship with its provincial hinterland.

More important, the riches that the south-east's service economy is
siphoning off represent a grotesque theft of assets from the Russian people.
The 1990s saw a legal ram raid of Russian resources that sent life
expectancy and GDP rates plummeting. London is enjoying these immoral
earnings with absolutely no regard for their provenance.
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Roman Abramovich is the biggest and wealthiest and
crookedest of these so called oligarchs, who are backing Putin
and were in part behind his selection and rise to power.
They have a chokehold on the Russian state because they privatized
most of the utilities. They've taken charge of what are in effect a large
portion of the world's mineral assets.
The oligarchs are no longer operating only in Russia and are more and
more actively expanding their businesses into Western countries.
They bring with them their own brand of largely criminal business methods,
and are in Abramovich's case, directly connected to Mafia-type
operations and international criminal syndicates.

"Never say you will never end up in jail or a beggar", R Abramovich, 2003.

"Darth Simian" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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If RA hadn't bought Chelsea, would you either

a) Know/care anything about him or
b) Espouse his 'Thatcherist' values as a self made man?

Q

"Darth Simian" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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Yawn

"Quiller" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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Yes

There is nothing Thatcherite or Conservative about what Abramovich has done.

you are living a life of denial you dilluded twat

"Darth Simian" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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done.

I thought he got rich through the privatisation of a Nationalised company

Q

Darth Simian wrote:

It's all fine.

It's perfectly OK.


WHAT?!?! You didn't get your cheque?

Darth Simian wrote:

Indeed.

CFC is his charity. It is so heavily subsidised it will take at least
a decade to earn back what has been spent on the club, despite what
Kenyon says. CFC is to actual business as HMS Pinafore is to the Royal
Navy.

Hell, having the idea planted in his ear, Roman might give over sevens
free milk, if he obtained some joy from it, make them laugh and see the
milk run out their noses or sommat.

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I think its good chelsea are connected to stuff like that, thats one
business that never goes down.

"Dean Shelley" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].uk> wrote in message
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That's what the Krays thought.
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Every single SU and FCUM member is now an enemy of Manchester United,
and the Conservative Party.
Do what must be done. Do not hesitate. Show no mercy.