The Russian Poisoning

   I have not kept up with this story to much only because I figured that it would get more interesting later on. Well, it is later on!

    Meet Boris Berezovsky, a former mathematician turned billionaire who made most of his money thanks to a friendship with Boris Yeltsin after the break-up of the  Soviet Union.

    Berezovsky got very good stakes in the oil company Sibneft, the TV station ORT and Aeroflot. With all of the political power that came with all of the wealth, Berezovsky supported Putin's bid to become president in 2000. Guess that he figured that he would have a puppet on the inside much like Halliburton has with Bush.

   Only problem with that was that Mr. Putin had other ideas such as cutting back on the rising democracy that Russia was heading to and taking back some of the businesses that Putin thought should be run by the state.

   Mr. Berezovsky has made some interesting friends since his asylum in Britain.

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    To the annoyance of those who consider him an outlaw, Berezovsky has been photographed with Neil Bush, President Bush's brother. Bell, the public relations executive in London, said he introduced Berezovsky to Neil Bush in 2003. Berezovsky later became an investor in Ignite! Learning, Bush's educational software company.   WaPo

    Figures that there has to be a Bush in there somewhere.

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