Lobbying company closely connected to Tories, New Century Media, appointed by the Lord Mayor of London to work in unpaid promotional activity with the Moscow International Financial Centre in 2011. New Century has donated £143,000 to the Tories March '18 thetimes.co.uk/article/tories…
Is this story by The Times accurate? In 2013 (23rd June in Billingsgate Mkt) New Century also DID THIS....Vladimir Putin's judo buddy does not come cheap theguardian.com/politics/ng-in… 
Burnside dinner guest Kliamko ties in nicely with Mikhail Friedman and Roman Abramovitch (close Putin buddies) and a man with ties to Crimean business forbes.com/profile/andrei…
In 1999, when Putin was first appointed PM by Yeltsin, Shestakov stopped being a judo trainer in St. Petersburg & went into politics, creating Unity Party that formed Putin's early support. In 2001, it became United Russia, Putin's powerbase content.time.com/time/world/art…
Don't mess with the Orange Man Burnside and his Russian buddies - let him march around raising cash for whatever righteous cause takes his fancy - ironic as Tories were originally bandits or are they still? theirishstory.com/2019/01/18/the…
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