For twenty years one of the richest in the world, a former cashier of Yeltsin and since 2018 an “unwelcome” man in Great Britain: he sold cigarettes to tourists outside the Kremlin, then the turning point with the wedding and 2,000 rubles …
If it is true that every face tells a story, that of Roman Abramovich – the fixity of the mask, the cerulean and indecipherable eyes, a sort of angry composure that finds only in the crease of the mouth a flash of ironic surprise (look at him carefully: he always seems to be amazed of something, but only a little) – is the bignami of a whole life deliberately silent and tacitly sinister, dedicated to power in all its forms, bent on the actions of those who do but do not say, and those rare times that they say – rest assured – has already done.
