Inside Vladimir Romanov’s Hearts – Mowgli, tartan shorts and a nuclear submarine


Romanov has a kick-about on a visit to his old neighbourhood in Kaunas in 2006
“The last image anyone in Scotland has of Vladimir Romanov is from a grainy news item broadcast on Russian TV two years ago. Romanov is being interviewed with snow all around him, a huge black submarine wedged in a drift to his right. It can drop to -20C (-4F) here and a red mountaineering jacket is zipped up to his chin. His location is given as Nikul’skaya, a village in north-west Russia and one so small you can count the individual houses on Google’s satellite imagery. Romanov is here because he is wanted in Lithuania on various criminal charges. …”
The Athletic

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