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Berezovsky Said He Pioneered Russia’s Capitalism
As personification of the so-called Yeltsin oligarchy, he was the pioneer of Russia’s capitalism, Boris Berezovsky said in the interview to Le Figaro.
We became rich, as, sooner than anyone else, we realized that the new time had begun, said Boris Berezovsky, once the Kremlin’s mastermind and today’s resident of London. Berezovsky opposed the oligarchs of the Yeltsin epoch to Putin’s oligarchs, specifying that the latter generated their wealth by confiscating assets of true owners.
According to Berezovsky, among Putin’s oligarchs are Gennady Timchenko, who deals with oil business and is Vladimir Putin’s mate, and billionaire Roman Abramovich. As to Abramovich, he is Putin’s accomplice involved in confiscating Berezovsky’s property.
He met with me in France, Berezovsky said, to suggest yielding stocks of my companies in return for release of my friend Nikolay Glushkov [once deputy GD at Aeroflot]. Berezovsky had to agree but Glushkov stayed in the prison, the tycoon said to characterize Abramovich, who had been his business partner once.
Asked about the criminal cases initiated against him in Russia, Berezovsky said he was calling for the peaceful revolution and predicted that Putin would never step down at will. As to polonium killing of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, Berezovsky again blamed the murder on Putin, pointing out that the crime had been arranged by secret services and committed by Lugovoy.
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