Economics
How a British Lord Helped Push Trump to Lift Rusal Sanctions
Greg Barker, a former Tory climate minister and marketing man, was an unlikely savior for Deripaska’s businesses
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The champagne corks were already popping by lunchtime on Monday at the London offices of the Russian company that until the last week was controlled by Oleg Deripaska.
Less than 24 hours after the U.S. lifted sanctions on three companies tied to the Russian oligarch, his erstwhile holding company En+ Group Plc was opening bubbly for exhausted staff and advisers at its office just meters away from Buckingham Palace.