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RF Prosecutor General Opens Action against “London Revolutionary”
Russia’s Prosecutor General Yury Chaika ordered to initiate a criminal action against exile tycoon Boris Berezovsky in the wake of his statement about plotting a new Russian revolution. Chaika regarded Berezovsky’s interview to The Guardian as “open calls for forcible overthrow of constitutional power.”
Days before, the prosecutors initiated a criminal case against Berezovsky, following his similar interviews to French media. FSB that is the main successor agency to KGB is in charge of investigation.
”We need to use force to change this regime,” the oligarch told The Guardian, specifying personal involvement in funding the coup. “There are practical steps which I am doing now, and mostly it is financial,” The Guardian quoted Berezovsky as saying.
Russia’s prosecutors opened a criminal action against Berezovsky past year, blaming the calls for forcible change of power on him. The reason was oligarch’s interview to Echo Moskva. Afterwards, however, Berezovsky explained that he meant only some bloodless replacement of authoritarian ruling by democracy, as it had happened in Georgia and Ukraine.
A resident of London, Boris Berezovsky was granted political asylum in Britain along with the passport for Platon Elenin’s name. The Kremlin is seeking to extradite this shadowy fugitive billionaire but all requests have been always turned down by Britain’s courts.
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