+UPDATE+
Russia has its 1st official new aristocrat since the fall of the Tsar over century ago.
In a surprise move Vladimir Putin & Boris Johnson agreed to confer Baron Lebedev's barony to include Siberia in the Russian Federation.
Russia has its 1st official new aristocrat since the fall of the Tsar over century ago.
In a surprise move Vladimir Putin & Boris Johnson agreed to confer Baron Lebedev's barony to include Siberia in the Russian Federation.
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It cannot be overestimated just how powerful a message this sounds out internally in Russia.
Boris Johnson is using the most sacred of constitutional symbolism to tie in Russian oligarchy elite within British society.
It cannot be overestimated just how powerful a message this sounds out internally in Russia.
Boris Johnson is using the most sacred of constitutional symbolism to tie in Russian oligarchy elite within British society.
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Lebedev's family is intimately tied within the KGB/FSB elites.
Boris Johnson looking increasingly like he's following the pro Russia policy of 2017 Donald Trump.
Huge significance within Russian society.
Lebedev's family is intimately tied within the KGB/FSB elites.
Boris Johnson looking increasingly like he's following the pro Russia policy of 2017 Donald Trump.
Huge significance within Russian society.
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The society pages of Britain's favoured newspaper of the conservative upper class elite quietly slips in the title in todays' edition.
The society pages of Britain's favoured newspaper of the conservative upper class elite quietly slips in the title in todays' edition.
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