{
  "id": 16090025,
  "title": "‘London and I are a perfect match.’ Journalist Vladimir Raevsky talks about his adopted city for Meduza’s new series of questionnaires with Russian émigrés.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/london-and-i-are-a-perfect-match-journalist-vladimir-raevsky-talks",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T18:29:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/22/london-and-i-are-a-perfect-match-russian-journalist-vladimir-raevsky-talks-about-his-adopted-city-for-meduza-s-new-series-of-questionnaires-with-russian-emigres"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Journalist Vladimir Raevsky shares his experiences living in London for Meduza's new series of questionnaires with Russian émigrés. According to Raevsky, London and he are a perfect match. He loves the city's diversity, friendliness, openness, and curiosity about others, as well as the lack of violence. Raevsky finds London to be an expensive and demanding city that requires constant movement, work, and initiative. He compares it to a gym, where one must be active and engaged to survive.\n\nOne of Raevsky's favorite places in London is the British Museum, which offers free admission. He enjoys visiting it for short periods to reflect on the significance of the Parthenon Marbles staying in Britain. In terms of food, Raevsky mentions boiled eel, pork cracklings, and overripe cucumbers, although he jokes that all of these are inedible.\n\nRegarding hobbies, Raevsky shares that he and his wife took up hiking through mud and thorns after giving up drinking. They joined a group chat where friends organized weekend hikes, and they found that this activity replaced the social aspect of going to the pub. Despite the initial difficulties, they found joy in these hikes, often ending up in challenging and beautiful terrain.",
  "summary": "A new installment of our “Emigrant Questionnaire” series! Our first questionnaire was completed by Monetochka, who lives in Vilnius, and the second by Elmira Drau, a 32-year-old English teacher in Yerevan. This time, journalist Vladimir Raevsky tells us about life in London.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Financial Times",
        "title": "Russian missiles bombard Kyiv after Witkoff-Putin talks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/russian-missiles-bombard-kyiv-after-witkoff-putin-talks",
        "published": "2026-10-22T06:15:35.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}