Mark Hollingsworth - Londongrad - From Russia with Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

spending sprees 24-7

term first used 31

Oligarkh (film) 29-30, 267, 277

Olympia (yacht) 154

Omsk, Siberia 43

Omsknefteproduckt 44

Onassis, Aristotle 129

Open Russia Foundation 222, 223, 224, 227

Open Society Foundation 222

Open World academic

exchange programme 224

‘Operation Come to Me’ 266-7

‘Operation Fab’ 265-6, 267

Operation Maltesa I 210-12, 213

Operation Maltesa II 212-13

Operation Olive Grove 213

‘Orange Revolution’ (Ukraine) 276, 281

Organizatsiya see Russian mafia

Ornellaia estate and vineyard, Tuscany 129

Orsk-Khalilovsky Metal Combine 157

ORT 40-41, 44, 53-4, 82, 85-7, 91-3, 95-6, 99, 100, 102, 271, 306

ORT-Videos 101

Orwell, George 196

Osborne, Frances 333

Osborne, George 333-5

O’Sullivan, David 331 n

Other Russia, The 273, 281

Ottawa 207

Owen, Lord 226, 350

Oxford Russia Fund 227

Oxford University Russian Society 258, 276

Packer, Kerry 124

Panama 219

Panteleimonov, Nikolai 42

Paper nightclub, London 202

Paris

19th-century influx of Russians 23

Russian attitude to 19

Parlour, Karen 348

Parlour, Ray 348

Partridge Fine Arts, New Bond Street 369

Patarkatsishvili, Arkady ‘Badri’ 41, 44, 323

charged with embezzlement 103

a client of Curtis 235, 236

early career 84

flees Russia to Georgia 102

involvement in Georgian politics 84, 277, 278

Jewish Georgian background 83

and Josef Kay 100-101

and LogoVaz 84

meeting with Berezovsky and Abramovich 91-3

and ORT 83, 85, 86-7, 96

personality 83

plans a coup d’état 278

presidential candidate (2007) 278

property purchases 277-8

relationship with Berezovsky 83, 84, 277

and Sibneft 97, 99, 126

Patrushev, Nikolai 86, 115

Pavlov-Andreevich, Fedor 191

Pazik, Kristin 162

Pearson, Hon. Charles 236

Pegu Club, Manhattan 352

Pelorus (yacht) 130, 153-4, 201, 351

Pennsylvania Castle, Isle of Portland, Dorset 2, 5, 9, 11, 13, 236

Pentlands, St George’s Hill, Weybridge 110

perestroika 35, 37, 42, 46, 118

Performance (film) 125

Peskov, Dmitri 300

Peter the Great 65, 193

Pettit, Jim 338

Picasso, Pablo 203-4

Dora au Chat 186, 193

Pichugin, Alexei 230

Pikulenko, Alexander 25

Pinchuk, Viktor 358

Pine Bar see Millennium Hotel

Pinochet, General 82, 257

Piotrovsky, Dr Mikhail 223

Platinum Entertainment Services 162

Plato: The Republic 31

Plisetskaya, Maya 170

Politkovskaya, Anna 173, 205, 207-8, 271, 308, 360

Pollock, Jackson 186

polonium-210 poisoning 27-8, 299, 302, 306, 310

Poltimore, Lord (Mark) 193, 350

Poppy, Richard 9

Pora (It Is Time) 360

Porter, Cole 89

Porter, Matthew 241

Portland Hospital, London 123

Portman, Justin 169

Potanin, Vladimir 35, 49, 63-4, 66, 206, 226, 243, 275

Powell, Lady Carla 113-14

Powell, Lord 113, 350

Prada 181

Pravda 189

Premiair 349

President Hotel, Moscow 50

Price, Sarah 3, 8

PricewaterhouseCoopers 80

Primakov, Yevgeny 71, 72, 73, 77

Prime Purchase 136, 141

Prodi, Romano 293

Profumo, John 125

Progress, Le (newspaper) 207

Project X (yacht) 264-5

Prokhorov, Mikhail 206-7, 366

Prospect magazine 355

Public Policy Partnership 226

Pugachev, Sergei 170

Purchase, Ken 282

Putin, Maria 68

Putin, Vladimir 134, 169, 170, 200, 202, 225, 358

aims to modernize Russia, not democratize it 82, 271

appearance 68

appointed President 73, 82, 274

appointed Prime Minister 72

and Berezovsky 66, 67, 71-2, 73, 76, 85-7, 90, 91-3, 108, 253-4, 256, 258-61, 265-6, 268, 271, 280, 281, 283, 284, 291, 292, 296, 298, 301, 306, 357

director of FSB 71, 74, 289

early life 68-9

education 68-9

First Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg 70

first Presidential Decree 56

and Gutseriyev 361-2

in the KGB 69-70

and Khodorkovsky 5, 66, 209, 220, 226, 228-9, 244, 246

Kursk disaster 85

and Litvinenko 289-93, 297, 300, 307, 308

meeting with Berezovsky and Abramovich 91-3

and the oligarchs 64, 65-7, 73-87, 121, 125, 133, 232

and opposition parties 273

and ORT 96

personality 67-8, 69, 70

purge by 65-87

relationship with Abramovich 159, 163

relationship with Deripaska 15

response to Moscow apartment bombings 72-3

and Rozhetskin 359

Safronov’s portrait 148-9

‘sambo’ (judo/wrestling) practitioner 69, 87

and Usmanov 195

Putin, Vladimir, Snr 68

Qatar 311

Qatar, Emir of 358

Queen K (yacht) 321, 333

Quintessentially 350-51, 368-9

Radford, Dennis 7, 9

Radford, Captain Max 2-3, 7, 8, 9

Radio Free Europe 281

RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine, Henlow, Bedfordshire 3

Ragozhina, Elena 174-5, 177

Raisa Gorbachev Foundation 171

Rausing, Hans 132

Rawlinson, John 164, 165-6

Reading, Marquess of 114

Reagan, Ronald 224, 276

Real Madrid FC 235

Red Army 42, 287

‘red directors’ 34, 54-5, 62, 64

Red Square PR company 121, 167, 180

Redgrave, Vanessa 269, 270

Reform Club, London 113, 258

Reguly, Eric 319

Reuben, David and Simon 322, 323

Reuter, Baron de 133

Revolutionary Congresses 21

Richard, Cliff 144

Risc Management 109, 248

Ritchie, Guy 144, 169

River Café, Hammersmith 162

‘robber barons’ 58-9

Roberts, W. (Hatton Garden jeweller) 94

Robertson, Lord, of Port Ellen 350

Robski, Oksana and Sobchak, Ksenia: Married to a Millionaire 196

Rockefeller, John D. 58-9

Rocks PR company 169

Roedean 166

Roeg, Nicholas 125

Roka tearoom and restaurant, Charlotte Street, London 26

Rokni, Niki 349

‘Rose Revolution’ (Georgia, 2003) 277

Rose, Stuart 177

Rosneft 228, 229, 233, 341

Rostropovich, Mstislav 194

Rothermere, Viscount 138, 365

Rothschild, Lord Jacob 162, 167, 223-4, 225, 329, 332, 336, 357

Rothschild, Mayer 333

Rothschild, Nat 167, 329-36, 336, 357

Rothschild family 133, 167, 329, 332, 333

Royal Berkshire Polo Club 168

Royal Family 147, 170

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 170, 331

Royal United Services Institute 109, 258

Rozhetskin, Leonid 359

Rublevskoye Highway 47

Rublyovka 185

Ruiz, Cristina 190

Rules restaurant, Covent Garden, London 24

Runicom SA 127

Rusal 91, 157, 316, 323, 324, 325, 328, 329, 331, 340, 343

Rushdie, Sir Salman 171

Russia

accumulated wealth secreted abroad 19

banking system’s lack of liquidity 32

bankruptcy (1998) 54, 214

capital flight 61-2

consumer boom at the millennium 179

crime, political uncertainty, and economic turbulence 14

easing of restrictions on private enterprise 23

from political dictatorship to power-wielding elite 31

judiciary 16

‘loans for shares’ scheme 35, 41

male life expectancy 208

mass voucher scheme 32-4

oil, gas and mineral resources 27

ownership concentration 18-19

privatization 18, 23, 32-3, 44, 61, 62, 63-4

scramble to build a Western-style market economy 15-16

Russia Foundation 160

Russian Academy of Sciences 36-7

Russian Communist Party 273

Russian community in London

reasons for coming to Britain 14, 15

size of 14