In other countries, you may be asked to give a push to a car stuck in the mud. In Russia, passengers in the Arctic came out of an airliner to the bitter cold to help it move to the runway.

An exiled Russian oligarch called Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich a “bastard” after being “blackmailed”, a British High Court judge was told.

THE wife of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky won a “quickie” divorce yesterday in what lawyers speculated could be the biggest settlement in British legal history.