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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Russia is heading towards “pariah status” and that the world must now brace for the next stage of Putin’s plan, saying that the Kremlin is laying the ground for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “Bank Rossiya has supported the consolidation of Crimea into the Russian Federation by integrating the financial system after the annexation of Crimea,” reads a statement on the government web page listing the sanctions.But the Conservative prime minister refrained from imposing limits on Russia’s biggest state banks, cutting off capital for Russian companies or ejecting other prominent so-called Russian oligarchs from Britain.
Hundreds of billions of dollar have flowed into London and Britain’s overseas territories from Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and London has become the Western city of choice for the super-wealthy of Russia and other former Soviet republics.
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