Quoting "Randy J. Ray" <rj...@blackperl.com>:
But here's the (possibly unusual) request part: I've been studying
Russian for a bit, and would like to find and visit an area with a
preponderance of Russian businesses. Not to practice, goodness no,
I'm still very weak at it. Rather, I wanted to snap some photos and
possibly find a semi-Russian-themed souvenir for my Russian teacher.
For lack of a better example, a neighborhood like the one depicted
in "Eastern Promises", where I would see a lot of Cyrillic on the
storefronts, and I might find the local Russian-language newspapers.
Wikipedia has a good piece on the locations used in Eastern Promises.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Promises#Locations
But I'm not a regular enough visitor to those part of London to know
whether they actually have the kinds of business you're looking for.
Cheers,
Dave...