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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