When a Siberian mine manager vanished three years ago, his sister enlisted the UK’s media, courts and politicians to find him. For Lazarevich’s disappearance is just one plotline in a larger story about feuding oligarchs who view the UK’s media, parliament and courts as pawns on a giant chessboard. Like many other Siberian mine administrators, he was subject to intimidation from organised criminal gangs who wanted to acquire coal illegally. Photograph: Nick Wall/BBC/Cuba/Nick WallOstensibly the document was produced as part of a crowd-funded appeal for justice by miners who held Shchukin responsible for Lazarevich’s disappearance. Antipin was not the only Kremlin advocate raising concerns about Lazarevich’s disappearance.

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2019 06:11 UTC