A conversation about Russian leaders

with Boris Berezovsky
in Current Affairs
on Wednesday, September 20, 2000 * * * * *

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Russian businessman and former member of the Russian Parliament Boris Berezovsky discusses Russian leaders and the current state of Russian politics.

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Keywords:
Boris Yeltsin
Kiriyenko
Russian mafia
Vladimir Putin
World
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Stepashin
Russian army
Russia
Boris Berezovsky
oligarchs
Vladimir Gusinsky
Chechnya

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    1. Mirror  12/25/2009 01:35 PM Report

      Berzovsky is wanted in the following countries:

      Russia - on embezzlement, money laundering charges, murder, theft, call to the power take over by force;

      Holland, Switzerland, Brazil - on money laundering charges.

      He is believed to be behind the murder of Listjev, Paul Khlebnikov and a number of other journalists who tried to expose his dealings as well as the untimely and violent deaths of his associates and competitors.

    2. Mirror  12/25/2009 01:28 PM Report

      According to Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, Boris Berezovsky encouraged Chechen warlords Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev to kidnap people so that Berezovsky could finance them by paying ransoms. Kadyrov said he personally witnessed the agreement. "He couldn’t just give money to the militants, so he invented this mechanism. In my presence, Berezovsky suggested to Raduev and Basaev: ‘Capture people and I’ll ransom them. I’ll get good publicity and you’ll get money.’ He paid millions of dollars to Basaev," Kadyrov said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta in April, 2009. Kadyrov also said he believed Berezovsky was behind the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.