Track news and info about Russian exile Boris Berezovsky. Mr Berezovsky claims that a Russian hitman planned to shoot him in a room at the Hilton hotel, in London's Park Lane. The plot was foiled.
RBC, 20.03.2008, Moscow 19:56:38.Following the Russian Federal Security Service's accusations that a TNK-BP employee was involved in industrial espionage, the Russian-British oil company issued a statement declaring that it was opposed to the use of unfair competitive practices. Commenting on searches carried out at the company's offices, spokesperson Alexander Shadrin said that TNK-BP never supported and does not codone any illegal activities, whose purpose is to bring harm to the Russian...
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RBC, LUKoil Group's daily hydrocarbon production increased 1.7 percent to 2.181m barrels of oil equivalent in 2007 compared to a year earlier, the Russian oil company's press office reported. Oil output stood at 1.959m barrels per day, a 1.6 percent rise from 2006, with total oil production amounting to 96.464m tonnes in 2007, 1.5 percent above the previous year. LUKoil Group's saleable natural gas production increased 2.5 percent to 13.955bn cubic meters in 2007. The company attributes the...
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RFE did an interview with self-exiled Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky. In this excerpt, Berezovsky responds to a question about possible neutral territory for a trial.
Linked from http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/07/D66FD4D5-8991-4004-942A-F3B15CF62793.html
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RFE/RL: Now you're suggesting that both you and Andrei Lugovoi agree to be tried on neutral territory. What would be this neutral territory between the West and Russia? China? India?
Berezovsky: I never said...
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This is an interesting case. Sounds like Boris Berezovsky may have been right when he claimed that a Russian hitman was after him. Scotland Yard is pursuing the case.
Linked from http://www.itv.com/news/c4d975a9960b47509cc54546e5396634.html
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Mr Berezovsky's spokeswoman said: "Three weeks ago, he was informed by Scotland Yard of a plot to kill him. They advised him to leave the country and after a week he was told it was OK to return."
The would-be assassin apparently planned to...
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MOSCOW, July 9 (Itar-Tass) - The Investigation Committee of the Prosecutor’s Office is preparing for sending to court another criminal case against Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky, the chief of the Investigation Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said in an interview to the newspaper Argumenty...
MOSCOW. July 4 (Interfax) - London's refusal to expel Chechen separatist emissary Akhmad Zakayev and business tycoon Boris Berezovsky is clouding the atmosphere of Russian-UK relations, Russian ambassador to Britain Yury Fedotov said in an interview with Interfax Friday.
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich won the first round of his legal battle Thursday against a US$4.3 billion (€2.7 billion) lawsuit from fellow oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Check out the LawFuel Jobs Network at http://www.lawfuel.com/law-jobs.asp
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Polish: Berezowski) (Бор́ис Абр́амович Берез́овский) (born January 23, 1946) is a Russian businessman. He was Russia's first billionaire ..
Boris Berezovksy, 57, helped popularize the term "oligarch" and is perhaps the most controversial of the group. Born in Moscow in 1946, Berezovsky was the only child ...
Daily Telegraph - Boris Abramovich Berezovsky was born into a Jewish family in Moscow and studied forestry and then applied mathematics, receiving a doctorate in 1983. He did research on optimisation