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Since then, travel agencies and brokers have drawn people from all over the world to join what they call Russia’s “elite international battalion,” dangling a raft of benefits to attract would-be recruits.

A whole raft of players have arrived in a short space of time, but this is by far the most significant decision taken by the new owners.

Three years later, Middleton gave a raft of youngsters their England debuts in a match against Canada in Barnet.

But by then his words had already spooked markets, spurring a sharp fall in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and a raft of enraged statements from his political enemies.

Yvette Cooper has announced a funding boost for Ukraine alongside a raft of new sanctions on Russia, as she visits Kyiv in her first overseas trip as foreign secretary.