Let Londongrad be a lesson: Russian money is no way to run a country

Back in 2014 when Boris Johnson was Mayor of London, he was happy to welcome Russian oligarchs and other billionaires. His city, he boasted on the Freakanomics podcast, was “to the billionaire as the jungles of Sumatra are to the Orangutan… the presence of these exotic creatures, the billionaires, is good for the whole ecosystem.”

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