If only we had embraced Russia instead of treating it like a second world country after Perestroika. Then, ideally, we might have had stroke with the leadership in Moscow, and we might have shepherded them into an ally committed to the rule of law and good business practices. Alas, the silver-haired Cold Warriors who won the Cold War did not have the necessary distance to treat Russia, in victory, with grace and forgiveness. "Pacta sunt servanda," was Gorbachev rallying cry and the disintegration of their unholy regime, but treaties mean nothing to the humilited and newly oil-rich Russian bear, who exists, angrily, to thwart the will of the U.S..
One of the nightmares of Russia's integration into Europe is the fact that amoral Russian billionaires are presently flocking to London at bacterial velocity to louchely spend their ill-gotten oil monies in an approximation of "the classy (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment)." To wit, Roman Abramovich from Thisislondon:
"The billionaire hired out West End club Paper for his daughter Anna, who is a pupil at West London school Godolphin & Latymer.
"The Chelsea boss spent more than (US$234,389) hiring out the whole club for last Saturday's bash where guests were given goody bags containing iPods and jewellery.
Hit duo and Mercury Prize winners The Klaxons DJ-ed at the club at a cost of around (US$15,625) along with DJ and presenter Alexa Chung.
Catering to the under-age guests tastes was a range of alcohol-free cocktails such as mojitos, banana daquiris and Bellinis at an estimated cost of £70,000."
Better louche parties, we suppose, than the dreaded Russian "Polonium Treatment."
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