In the UK, real estate cards of “oligarchs from Russia” are already being printed. The British are threatening to inflict such a blow “on Putin’s friends” that they will definitely not like it

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss recently announced that the UK will change its laws to expand the list of potentially sanctioned assets and people associated with the Kremlin. Restrictions will be imposed in the event of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Officials in the UK say the new sanctions could target financial institutions, energy companies and any firms and individuals supporting the Russian government.

“Now the sanctions are narrowly targeted by law: we can impose them only against companies that are directly involved in the destabilization of Ukraine. We want to expand coverage so that any company of interest to the Kremlin, and the Russian regime itself, can be sanctioned, so that Putin’s oligarchs and companies that support the Russian state have nowhere to hide, ”Lise Truss explained in an interview with the British television channel Sky News.

In general, Great Britain promises to strike at the most painful place for the Russian rich – their assets in London and the United Kingdom in general. “Nothing is out of the question,” Truss was quoted by the BBC when asked if the sanctions would affect real estate in London owned by “Putin’s oligarchs.”

Translation: “We are tightening and expanding the sanctions regime in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. There will be nowhere to hide. Nothing will be left unattended.”

And it’s not just some kind of entry bans and other nonsense that doesn’t frighten anyone – the British Foreign Office threatened Russian oligarchs with confiscation of property.

The loss of Russian businessmen from the freezing of British assets could amount to billions of pounds. The British pound, by the way, is more expensive than the dollar and the euro. All in all, that’s a lot of money. Moscow may have something to say: measures such as depriving BP of a 20% stake in Rosneft, restrictions on the British pharmacological, automotive and food business, and reducing swap gas supplies to the island nation have already been named.

But compared to the loss of Russian businessmen, this is a drop in the ocean. The loss of BP is still unknown for whom the bad news. The British corporation will definitely survive this, and Rosneft may lose part of the international markets. The restrictions for British business are also so-so… The trade turnover with England is not very large in principle. And their business somehow compensates for the loss of the country’s market with a constantly impoverished population. It’s ridiculous about gas in general, there are so many people in the world who want to supply it to anyone that the British would sooner or later refuse Russian gas anyway. On their territory, they believe, Russia carried out two attacks: one with radioactive polonium, the other with Novichok (banned chemical weapons) against British citizens. Two dead. How do they still buy gas from the Russian Federation?

Experts estimate that Britain could lose hundreds of millions of pounds. And only the Russian oligarchs, we repeat, – billions of pounds. And this is without taking into account the losses of companies and firms. And the Russian economy in general. That is, they are simply incomparable values.

But that’s not all. If Britain holds “Putin’s people” at home, they will begin to disturb and create problems around the world. Yes, somewhere, maybe to a lesser extent, but somewhere they will close their eyes. But this is a global black mark that will be very difficult to wash off.

In addition, the London Stock Exchange is the leading foreign trading platform for Russian companies. About 60 of them, worth £70bn, are listed on the UK stock exchange, including Gazprom, Rosneft, Sberbank, VTB, Lukoil and Norilsk Nickel.

By the way, not a single oligarch was named by the British Foreign Office, but many people already know them.

Today, the British edition of the Daily Mail published a map of the London real estate of only four Russian oligarchs.

Only the most famous names are indicated – the location and cost of villas and apartments of Alisher Usmanov, Mikhail Fridman, Oleg Deripaska and Igor Shuvalov. And, for example, Andrey Kostin, the head of VTB Bank, the second largest bank in Russia, has a subsidiary in London, writes DM.

So that you understand the scale of the threat. According to Mark Hollingsworth and Stuart Lensl, authors of the book Londongrad or From Russia with Money (2009 edition), 300,000 people who call themselves Russians live in London (most of them are not from Russia, but from the first turn – from the Baltic countries), including about 100 super-rich people. At the same time, British official statistics number 39,000 people all over the country who were born in Russia.

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