"Cummings, the divisive senior adviser to the prime minister, Boris Johnson, spent three years in Russia from 1994 to 1997 after he graduated from Oxford University with a first in ancient and modern history"
Ah yes - the start of the Wild West years in Russian economic banditry... - t me that shows he was a damn sight cleverer than most - the City of London only started to turn up big time around the end of the decade...... Very much doubt that makes him a security risk