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closely bound up a lot of these people are with with the oligarchy. 0k, well, let me bring in adam bienkov, because you published a big piece for byline times on saturday called the johnson lebedev letters . what did you find? so i first became aware of the relationship - between borisjohnson - and evgeny lebedev about ten years ago, in 2012, - when i spotted on the mayor of london s gift and hospitality registerl that he declared. a trip to italy paid for by lebedev. and i think that was a curious thing at the time, because it| wasn t in his official| diaries, hadn t been announced in any way. so i started to ask. questions about it but it wasn t really picked up by anyone else at the time, i even when it sort of later appeared that this was i an annual enterprise. it kept on being sent out there. and even several years i after that, when we learnt about this trip in 2018, - when he ditched his security detail and attended this party, it wasn t really picked up - on many other ne