Late last month members of activist group Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians climbed through an open window of Andrey Goncharenko’s Grade II-listed mansion in Eaton Square near Buckingham Palace, throwing the doors open to 25 homeless people to bed down.

The UK’s Guardian newspaper reported that the Russian’s representatives MCA Shipping in Gibraltar launched a possession order in a London court seeking to win back control of the five-storey property, which was built in the 1820s.

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