When Magda Tyler was looking for a job as a nanny in London in 2003, she really only wanted to bridge a few months to beginning of study. Play for a summer with a little scream necks in sandbox and go to outdoor pool – re were worse ways to make money, she thought.
In end, she was hired by a Russian family, who had a fabulous wealth and lived re. "In house in Belgravia district, re were two chefs, two maids, a butler, four chauffeurs, two bodyguards and a gardener," recalls Tyler. Security was extremely important. All cars were bulletproof, supposedly helicopter with which entire household flew to country estate in County of Surrey at weekend. "It was a huge box of turrets and ceiling paintings, not even beautiful, but overwhelming," says Magda Tyler, property in Surrey. Horse Stables with riding grounds behind, a garage with twelve sports cars, a gigantic wine cellar and a pool decorated with golden tiles.
Tyler spent six years in this luxury and took care of three guys who were initially between four and nine years old. She taught m how to play piano and skiing, and during summer holidays on yacht in Mediterranean she acted as a lifeguard. "I liked three very much, and salary was so sensational that I don't have to worry about my pension anymore," says Tyler.
In no western city do so many oligarchs and Newrich Russians live, so capital of England is described jokingly as Londongrad. Tyler came out of labor pay like a lottery win. However, it must not speak about height, because it has signed a declaration of secrecy. Only so much can she say: she has no idea where family's wealth originated.
The wealth of oligarchs in exile often has a sinister side. "Those who have become wealthy in Russia have had to decide for or against President Putin sooner or later," explains journalist Misha Glenny, author of several standard works on Putin's Russia. "In one way or anor, super-rich are entangled in an increasingly brutal political power struggle."
This article comes from time No. 15/2018. Here you can read entire output.The British secret services have no doubt that attack on retired Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia was ultimately motivated by Russian domestic politics. The two were poisoned in English small town of Salisbury with a nerve gas from Soviet era. The Russian government has denied, Dahinterzustecken. It reminded us of 2006, when former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko was radioactively contaminated in a London sushi bar. This was also a political murder in which trail led to Moscow. After Salisbury's attack, British government dismissed nearly half of all employees of Russian Embassy in London, with more than two dozen more states following this example. This was a diplomatic coup for government of Prime Minister Theresa May. "The West agrees: Russia must abide by rules, orwise it has a problem," she explained. There is a whole catalogue of sanctions that could furr isolate President Putin and Russian economy. The problem with Theresa May, however, is that se sanctions would not only be painful for Russia. They would also damage British economy significantly.
The fact that London was Londongraded allowed for a special scheme for visa applications from former Soviet Union, which was introduced in 1995. Russians who invested more than a million pounds in UK automatically received an unlimited residence permit for mselves and ir families. Six years after fall of communism, privatization of State-owned enterprises was in full swing. Hundreds of billions of dollars of capital were pushed back and forth. Corruption and economic crime spread. London offered Russians best conditions to settle with ir money.
Date Of Update: 09 April 2018, 12:02
