Ex-Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov said he sent his daughters to London, The Telegraph reported. Luzhkov gave an interview to the newspaper, where he expressed concerns about his daughters` safety in Russia.
`We have grounds, very serious grounds to worry about their safety,` he told the paper. `There is hatred out there. And if that hatred is all-consuming and the aim is to get at the family then the weakest link in the family is the children. We are afraid to leave them here in Russia.`
Luzhkov and his wife Yelena Baturina decided to send their daughters Elena, 18, and Olga, 16, to London `for four to six years,` the paper said.
Long-serving Luzhkov, 74, was fired by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev`s decree on September 28 after weeks of speculation about his worsening relations with the Kremlin and his imminent resignation or dismissal.
