Woman's Day Magazine NZ

‘We Went On The Run From Russia!’

It sounds like the plot of a thriller, but Nick Stride and his family’s story is all true – and more extraordinary than a Hollywood film.

Nick’s troubles began in the late ’90s, when the British construction manager started a family in Moscow with his Russian wife Luda.

“I was chosen to work on a special project building a multimillion-dollar winter garden for the deputy prime minister, Igor Shuvalov,” Nick, now 55, tells “It was very secretive and I was the

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