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

Virgin Money 122

Vladi-Moscow 168

Vodianova, Natalia 169, 180, 200

Vogue 200

Russian 174, 180

Volkov, Nikolai 77-8

Voloshin, Alexander 85-6, 231

Volvo 38

‘voucher saving funds’ 34

VSMPO-Avisma 342

Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire 223

Wadley, Veronica 365

Wall Street financial scandals 17

Wall Street Journal 47

Wallis, Richard 127-8

Walpole, Sir Robert 225

Walpole Collection 225

Walsh, Nick Paton 268

Warren Mere House, Thursley, near Guildford, Surrey 110

Waterside Point, Battersea, London 2, 7

Watford, Mikhail ‘Micha’ 144

Webster, Assia 169

Webster, Stephen 169

Wechsler, William 64

Wentworth Park, Surrey 20, 144

West Bromwich Albion FC 319

Westbury Hotel, Mayfair 178

West LB 218

Westminster, Duke of 128, 157

Westminster Policy Partnership (later Public Policy Partnership) 226

Weybridge, Surrey 20, 143

White, Marco Pierre 104, 162

White Russians 22

Whitechapel, London 21

Wigan, James 356, 357

Wildcat Ridge, near Aspen, Colorado 129

Willis, Bruce 205

Wilson, Governor Pete 50

Winchester College 165

Windsor, Berkshire 143

Windsor, Duke and Duchess of 129

Windsor, Lord Freddie 181

Windsor, Lady Gabriella 171

Windsor Great Park 170-71

Winehouse, Amy 202

Winslet, Kate 144

Witanhurst, Highgate 358

Wolfe, Tom 173

Wolfensohn, James 223

Wood, John D 141

Workers’ Revolutionary Party 269

Workman, Robert 251

Workman, Chief Magistrate Timothy 250-51, 262, 269

World Bank 32, 223, 273

report (2004) 18-19

World Chechen Congress 269

World Economic Forum 49, 275, 330, 336

World Health Organization 208

World Trade Organization 330

www.Spletnik.ru (gossip website) 320

Wyndham, Henry 187

Yabloko 244

Yacht City 170

Yandarbiyev, Zelimkhan 268, 311

Yanukovich, Viktor 276

Yarichevsky, Boris 21

Yeltsin, Boris 46, 60, 165, 199, 337

1996 election campaign 49-51

bargain with the oligarchs 49-51, 66

and Berezovsky 40, 115

and the Chechnya conflict 53

economic reforms 23, 119

ends the Central Bank’s monopoly 47

the ‘family’ 52, 56

funeral 319

ill, often drunk and rarely in control 34-5

indecisive and capricious 34

introduction of free-market economy 32

mass voucher scheme 33

mentally and physically in decline 71

and ORT 40

potential successor to 64

and Putin 70-71, 72, 73, 289

re-election (1996) 83, 274

resignation of 73

Notes of a President 40

Yeltsin family 71, 123

York, Duke and Duchess of 142

York, Peter: The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook 346

York House, Kensington 199

Young, Charles 227

Young, Scott 110

Yukos oil company 46, 59, 350, 361, 362

assets frozen 233

asylum in Britain for executives 282

and Curtis’s funeral 11

enforced renationalization 233, 342

executives flee to UK 210-13, 305

and ExxonMobil 230

investigated by the state 239, 357

and ISC Global 237-8

and Khodorkovsky 48, 59, 209, 215, 218, 220, 221, 243

and Lord Gillford 227

and Lord Owen 226

market capitalization 48

and Menatep 5, 48, 215, 218

minority investors 6

Moscow headquarters 209

offices of Swiss company offices 5

offshore accounts 216

philanthropy 222-3

plans for 244-5

proposed huge dividend 245-6

raids of 210

restructuring 215

revenue from oil exports 217

and Rosneft 341

share offloading 218-19

share price 217-18, 222, 234

sued by companies 239-40

and Temerko 248, 249, 250

the Yukos curse 246-7, 251

Yumashev, Polina 56

Yumashev, Valentin 40, 52

Yushchenko, Viktor 276, 308

Yushenkov, Sergei 274

Zakaryan, Gagik 350

Zakayev, Akhmed 268-9, 282

Zampa Holdings Ltd 237

Zayed Al-Nahyan, Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa bin 98, 99, 100, 102

Zhukov, Alexander 199

Zhukova, Daria (‘Dasha’) 159, 163, 180, 181, 189, 199-203, 320

Zilli menswear shop, New Bond Street 368

Zolotoi restaurant, Moscow 366

Zveri 205

Zyuganov, Gennady 49, 50, 274

The authors would like to thank the scores of people who have agreed to be interviewed during the writing of this book. Some have done so openly while, because of the controversies surrounding the arrival of the Russian super-rich in London, many only agreed to cooperate on the condition of strict anonymity.

Our sources have been diverse. Some are rich Russians who now live in London while others are visitors from Moscow. Many know or have worked closely with the small group of businessmen who have risen up the world’s wealth leagues as a result of the sell-off of lucrative Russian state assets in the 1990s.

We have also been fortunate to draw on the work of lawyers, academics, business intelligence investigators, political risk analysts, and those who introduced newly affluent Russians to London as private security consultants, estate agents, art, antique, and wine dealers, and private-jet, yacht, and luxury-car brokers.

While this book is the first in-depth account of the new, wealthy Russians in London, we stand on the shoulders of other journalists and authors whose work precedes us. First and foremost among them is Keith Dovkants of the London Evening Standard . We also wish to acknowledge the reporting of Andrew Jack, former Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times and author of Inside Putin’s Russia , Dominic Midgley and Chris Hutchins, authors of Abramovich: The Billionaire from Nowhere , Misha Glenny, the author of McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers , Dominic Kennedy of The Times , David Leppard of the Sunday Times , Terry Macalister of the Guardian , Glen Owen of the Mail on Sunday , Thomas Catan, Adrian Gatton and the screenwriter and novelist Jill Wickersham.

The editors of the London Evening Standard magazine, ES , and the paper’s former editor Veronica Wadley deserve credit for understanding the importance of the oligarchs and the Londongrad phenomenon. The Frontline Club in London, which champions independent journalism throughout the world, has promoted a greater understanding of all things Russian.

In the United States we are grateful to Will Ferraggiaro in Washington, DC, who, as always, conducted excellent interviews with former US diplomats and officials. And we appreciate the insights of Richard Behar, the award-winning former Fortune reporter, Andrew Meier, former Time magazine correspondent in Moscow and author of The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service , and Glenn Simpson, the former investigative journalist for the Wall Street Journal .

In Moscow few journalists are as well informed as Will Stewart, and we are also grateful to officials from the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office, as well as Vincent Petrillo, a British businessman who knows more than most about the oil and gas sector in Russia.

We also appreciate the expert guidance of Alex Yearsley, former head of Special Projects at Global Witness, the influential non-governmental organization. He gave us access to his formidable international network of contacts, which enriched every aspect of this book. He seems to know everyone in this murky world. And this book could not have been written without our researcher, Tom Mills, who proved to be tireless, resourceful, diligent, and skilful. He did a superb job in disseminating complex corporate information and tracking down sources.