Mikhail Fridman, chairman of Alfa Group, speaks during his news conference in Moscow, June 16, 2008. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has told Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman he was still welcome to invest in the country even after he was forced to divest gas assets there under pressure from the previous government.
The move will be viewed with big relief by wealthy Russians who have been watching Fridman's struggle to invest in Britain with great anxiety amid a standoff between Moscow and the West over the conflict in Ukraine.
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