Arriving with HMY Britannia, he interpreted for the Duke of Edinburgh, Boris Yeltsin and a St Petersburg deputy mayor called Vladimir Putin
Arriving with HMY Britannia, he interpreted for the Duke of Edinburgh, Boris Yeltsin and a St Petersburg deputy mayor called Vladimir Putin
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He once boarded a Russian frigate to gather intelligence: ‘I went snooping around inside gun turrets and other places. It was fun’
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