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The Mediterranean bolthole offering a safe haven for Putin’s oligarchs

Western sanctions against Russian oligarchs were meant to put pressure on Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

Instead, many elites have simply gone on holiday.

Take Roman Abramovich: the former Chelsea owner has reportedly rented a mansion on the Bosphorus, the waterway that cleaves Istanbul in two and is said to divide Europe from Asia. Abramovich also appears to have moved his superyacht to Turkey.

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