Lawyer says Andrey Yakunin, son of an alleged ally of Putin, was ‘filming while mountaineering, glacier walking and sailing’
The British-Russian son of a longtime ally of Vladimir Putin is to fight charges of flying a drone illegally in Norway, in contravention of laws introduced in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Andrey Yakunin, who founded a private equity fund in London in 2006, was arrested in Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, in October under the law. Norwegian police brought criminal charges this month but Yakunin has said he will plead not guilty.
A luxury hotel in the centre of St Petersburg that was the first of the prominent Four Seasons franchise to open in Russia.
A luxury cottage village near St Petersburg on the shore of the Gulf of Finland that boasts 52 houses and a landscaped park.
The Radisson Blu Royal Palace Hotel in Vienna.
The Hard Rock Hotel in Davos, a Swiss ski resort that hosts an influential annual gathering of world leaders and business people.
A full-scale reconstruction of a medieval estate in Umbria, southern Italy.
