How are Russians in Britain faring?
Britons overwhelmingly oppose Russia’s war, but not Russia’s people
ALEXEI ZIMIN is not easily fazed. Just after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began last year, the celebrity chef posted a video of himself singing an anti-war song on Instagram. A day later the Moscow-based producers of his popular cooking programme, which was broadcast on NTV, a state-controlled Russian channel, called him to say that it had been cancelled. “That was it,” he says, sipping on sea-buckthorn tea in London. He has not returned to his homeland since.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Still (mostly) welcome”
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