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Dasha? Daria? Who’s that girl?

Roman Abramovich has an ex-pat Russian ‘close friend’. She looks familiar, says antonia bland

What a difference a day makes. On Sunday, Roman Abramovich was revealed by the News of the World - after he failed to win a legal injunction to block the article - to have a close friendship with "gorgeous Russian society girl" Daria Zhukova.

Now where had I seen Daria before? In another red-top? On the cover of Heat? No. She graced page 237 of my cherished November Vogue. Here, on paper somewhat thicker and glossier, beaming out of a beautifully staged photo, was the very same girl.

She featured in an article about London's new breed of glamorous and obscenely rich Russian

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