Russian Oligarch and Sharp Critic of Putin Dies Near London (Berezovsky) [View all]
Source: New York Times
MOSCOW — Boris A. Berezovsky, once the richest and most powerful of the so-called oligarchs who dominated post-Soviet Russia, and a close ally of Boris N. Yeltsin who helped install Vladimir V. Putin as president but later exiled himself to London after a bitter falling out with the Kremlin, died Saturday.
He was 67 and lived near London, where last year he lost what was billed as the largest private lawsuit in history — an epic tug-of-war over $5.1 billion with another Russian oligarch, Roman A. Abramovich, in which legal and other costs were estimated to be about $250 million.
Mr. Berezovsky’s death was first reported in a post on Facebook by his son-in-law Egor Schuppe, and confirmed by Alexander Dobrovinsky, a lawyer who had represented him.
Mr. Dobrovinsky, who runs a law firm with offices in Moscow and London, wrote in Russian on his own Facebook page: “Just got a call from London. Boris Berezovsky has committed suicide. The man was complex. An act of desperation? Impossible to live poor? A series of blows? I am afraid that no one will know the truth.”
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