How are Russians in Britain faring?

ALEXEI ZIMINNTV is not easily fazed. Just after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began last year, the celebrity chef posted a video of himself singing an anti-war song on Instagram. A day later the Moscow-based producers of his popular cooking programme, which was broadcast on , a state-controlled Russian channel, called him to say that it had been cancelled. “That was it,” he says, sipping on sea-buckthorn tea in London. He has not returned to his homeland since.Mr Zimin came to Britain to attend Le Cordon Bleu, a swanky culinary school in London, and then in 2016 set up a restaurant called Zima, which means “winter”. It offers modern versions of traditional Russian dishes such as a type of dumpling, or a dressed-herring salad. The dining-room decor nods to colourful works of Kazimir Malevich, an avant-garde artist who was born in Ukraine and died in Russia. Mr Zimin, a former journalist, also runs a magazine and a social club, both for Russian-speakers in Britain.