I once presented at an "East-West" security conference in London to which quite a lot of former soviet and current Russian "heavy-hitters" attend on their corporate accounts for a free few days holiday in London.
One of the other speakers was Jim Shortt, and at the time the Russkis seemed to take him quite seriously (probably about 10 years ago now).
He attended with a group of gullible young lads who were his bodyguard trainees out on a "practice mission" and after his presentation they all swept out of the room in a blaze of glory, down to the exit from the conference hotel and out in to the street....
Only to find that their cars had been towed away for illegal parking
