Britain
Protesters hold up anti-Putin placards near the Russian embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens as London’s Russian community stream in to vote for the Presidential elections in London March 4, 2012. London has become more Russian, a street known as Billionaires Row where an unidentified Russian last year reportedly paid £140 million for a house. In more public acquisitions, Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea Football Club, Alexander Lebedev scooped up The Independent and The Evening Standard and Alexander Mamut rescued Waterstones.The disillusionment accompanying Putin’s re-election will attract more of Russia’s brightest to what has been dubbed “Moscow on Thames,” (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
