Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Christian Science Monitor

    UK gets serious about cleansing London of Russian ‘dirty’ money

    by Shafi Musaddique Mar 03, 2022 4 minutes

    For years, Londoners have largely ignored the wealthy Russian oligarchs living among them.

    Locals in affluent Highgate in North London certainly knew they were there. Every weekend, tours of billionaires’ homes walk past Russian-owned Witanhurst, the United Kingdom’s second-largest house after Buckingham Palace.

    So, too, were they aware a couple of miles away in Belgravia, where Londoners have renamed Eaton Square “Red Square,” due to its high concentration of Russian tycoon homeowners – among them Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska, two billionaires closely allied with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    But the lack of public scrutiny – and the active welcome the oligarchs have received from multiple British governments over the years – looks set to come to

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Christian Science Monitor

    The Christian Science Monitor5 min read
    An Archipelago Was Losing Its Ancient Sport. African Migrants May Save It.
    Mamadou Camara and his opponent step out into the sandy arena. The two men – towering, hulking figures – bend at the waist and lock into position, grabbing the edges of each other’s rolled-up white shorts, head on each other’s shoulder. The referee b
    The Christian Science Monitor4 min read
    Meet The Franco-Malian Pop Star Sparking Debate Over Who Should Sing At The Olympics
    One of the most important roles at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympic Games this summer is likely to be performing the songs of Édith Piaf. So when President Emmanuel Macron was asked who might be tapped for such a duty, it was perhaps natural
    The Christian Science Monitor4 min readInternational Relations
    As Genocide Threatens Again, The World Wakes Up To Sudan’s Civil War
    The American diplomat could not have been clearer: This war must end, he said. “We need to be seeing massive convoys of aid” for its desperately vulnerable civilians. He was not talking about Gaza. Veteran U.S. diplomat Tom Perriello was addressing a

    Related