The Economist: Government in exile
The facade of 2-8a Rutland Gate, which is thought to be the most expensive home ever marketed in Britain, in central London on July 15.
Last week Vladimir Ashurkov, a former executive at Russia’s Alfa Bank, stood at the front of a tour bus full of journalists and academics threading its way through London’s Whitehall district, lecturing into a microphone as he pointed out an £11million ($16 million) apartment belonging to a senior Russian official.
