SCOTS have taken an interest in a “bizarre” sign put up on a Russian oligarch’s Highland estate after it was highlighted on Twitter.

Andy Wightman, who recently looked into the land owned by Russian billionaires for his column in The National, shared an image of the sign which is on the Aberuchill estate, near Comrie in Perthshire.

Alongside the picture of the sign, the former MSP wrote: “This is the rather bizarre sign erected on the Aberuchill Estate owned by Forestborne Ltd., a company registered in the British Virgin Islands and controlled (we understand) by Vladimir Lisin, chair of Novolipetsk Steel and worth c. £20 billion.”

The sign, Wightman told The National, is not on any public road, but is within the estate itself.

He said the locations listed have further ties to Lisin, whose Novolipetsk Steel firm is one of Russia’s largest.

The first, Ivanovo, is a city about 150 miles north east of Moscow, and is Lisin’s place of birth.

The second, Novokuznetsk, is a city of around 500,000 people in south western Siberia where Lisin has his largest Russian steel plant.

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The third, Temirtau, is a city in Kazakhstan where the oligarch has an interest in another metal plant, Wightman says.

The fourth is Moscow, the Russian capital. Lisin is reportedly a friend of President Putin, and was the nation’s richest man in 2010. He was also on the US Treasury Department’s sanctions list.

The fifth, Foxlodge, is a shooting lodge around 30 miles north of Moscow.

Lisin was the president of the Russian Shooting Union (SSR) until late 2020, and is also deeply involved with other such confederations.

He is the current president of the International Shooting Sport Federation, and in that position hit out at the decision to move the European Shooting Championship from Russia in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.

The sixth listing on the sign is "future". It is listed as being “infinite kilometres” away from Aberuchill. The meaning of this is unclear.

Responding to Wightman on Twitter, on user wrote: "Madness.

"This isn't in order alphabetically (which would be absurd for a sign like this anyways) OR by distance! 

"Who saw this and approved it?!"

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