Italy is becoming their favourite hunting-ground.

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"For a long time, many in the elite saw Russia as a hunting ground -- they would keep their money and live somewhere else, " he added.

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At refined Richmond pop into 17th-century Ham House, then Richmond Park, hunting ground of Henry VIII who, thankfully, did not finish off all the deer - hundreds still roam.

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