In early 2018, Russian Entrepreneurial Rights Envoy Boris Titov proposed a plan known as the “London list” to repatriate businesspeople who had left Russia because of looming criminal prosecution. On October 31, the first entrepreneur who moved back to Russia under the program, Andrey Kakovkin, was sentenced to three years in prison on fraud charges. Titov offered his first comments on the glitch in his plan a day later. He emphasized that Russia’s law enforcement agencies had only guaranteed that Kakovkin would not be held in jail to await his sentence. However, he said the sentence himself shocked him because he believes Kakovkin’s case would properly be classified as a civil dispute, not a crime. The ombudsman also reminded the Russian public that criminal cases against three otherwhile still being devoted primarily to the scientific and ethnographic study of the Pyrenees and to the dissemination of knowledge. Ramond, according to Froissard, had excelled in these disciplines and was the best symbol for the new society. This time all were agreed, and so the club was named. The composition of the society's first committee was: Frossard, president; Maxwell-Lyte, vice-president; Russell, secretary; Packe, assistant secretary. Among its earliest members were the geographer Élisée Reclus and the chemist Henry Holy-Claire Deville.

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The society started publishing a trimestrial bulletin in the first half of 1866 entitled Explorations pyrénéennes, in which its most eminent members put forth their theories and reported on the fruits of the research. Amongst its early contributors were some of the great names of pyrénéism, such