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...Asia or America, wealthy foreigners head for just a clutch of the city's most prestigious addresses. The U.K.'s housing market is slowing, but so far sales of premier homes have been unaffected, realtors say. According to Knight Frank, demand for homes in neighborhoods such as Belgravia, where Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich lives, Knightsbridge, the home of Harrods, and Mayfair, where the black-Amex set get their suits made at Savile Row, pushed the prices of prime real estate up by almost 40% between the summer of 2006 and summer 2007. In 2006, almost a quarter of properties costing...
...years ago sells for $47,000 now. Most foreign clients buy fine wine as an investment, but some aren't thinking quite so long-term. Miles remembers once getting an urgent order for a case of $2,000 half bottles of 1982 Lafite Rothschild "because some Russian oligarch wanted it delivered to his private jet and a half-bottle was all he could handle on his flight back to Moscow...
...buzz to get past that writer’s block or finish that book. And to assist you with your scholarly inebriation, FM has whipped up some delicious concoctions for each one of your study spots. Just make sure that you serve them in library-appropriate disguises. Widener Russian 2 oz. vodka 1 oz. coffee liqueur 3 oz. cream or milk Serve in a Peet’s coffee cup and pretend that it’s hot. Sip slowly. Lamontal Breakdown 2 oz. vodka 1 can sugar-free Red Bull Serve in another empty Red Bull can and nobody...
...Khozyain - Barin." This terse Russian phrase means, "One lords it over on his turf as one pleases, legally...
...Russians claim their sovereign right to have guests abide by local laws, accusing the BC of acting outside its official status due to tax and other irregularities. The Russian Foreign Ministry (MFA) ordered BC branches in Saint Petersburg and in Yekaterinburg in the Urals closed. They were the last remaining regional outfits of the erstwhile 15. The Moscow BC office has permission to carry...