BigBaribal
01-30-2005, 09:16 AM
What a surprise!
Just after Soros bought himself Ukrain through his proxy "Bushenko", the oligark Berezovsky wants to go there!
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/29/russia.berezovsky.reut/index.html
Russian tycoon eyes Ukraine move
Saturday, January 29, 2005 Posted: 1352 GMT (2152 HKT)
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Berezovsky wanted in Moscow for fraud and embezzlement.
MOSCOW, Russia (*******) -- Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, wants to leave Britain, where he has been given political asylum, and move to Ukraine, media quoted him as saying on Saturday.
Berezovsky, one of Russia's once-mighty and hugely wealthy "oligarchs," voiced his intention just days after the inauguration of Ukraine's new President Viktor Yushchenko, a Western-leaning liberal whose candidacy Putin publicly opposed.
"Yes, I want to move to Kiev," Berezovsky told Interfax news agency. "I don't want to do business in Kiev, I just want to live there."
A powerful Kremlin insider under ex-President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, Berezovsky lives in exile in London and wants to stir an opposition movement against Putin -- a man Berezovsky says he helped Yeltsin to pick as his successor.
In an interview with news Web site gazeta.ru, he said he was confident Ukraine's new leadership would not extradite him to Moscow, where he is wanted for fraud and embezzlement.
"There is the Geneva Convention on political refugees. This convention was signed by many countries, including Ukraine," said Berezovsky, who often travels under a fake name.
"I officially received refugee status in Britain and have the right to go to any country that signed this convention and be guaranteed that I will not be extradited to a country that does not abide by law," he added.
Yushchenko, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said he was not aware of Berezovsky's request
"One thing is sure. We will be acting in strict compliance with domestic and international laws...in this context," he told reporters.
Yushchenko, elected in December, has pledged to work towards Ukraine's greater integration with Western Europe while maintaining good ties with neighboring Russia. Putin had publicly backed his more pro-Moscow opponent in the election but later acknowledged Yushchenko's victory.
Berezovsky sees Moscow's campaign against him as part of Putin's drive to subdue the "oligarchs" of the 1990s -- men who made fortunes in the privatization of state assets after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Berezovsky said he would to move to the Ukrainian capital in the next few months.
Just after Soros bought himself Ukrain through his proxy "Bushenko", the oligark Berezovsky wants to go there!
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/29/russia.berezovsky.reut/index.html
Russian tycoon eyes Ukraine move
Saturday, January 29, 2005 Posted: 1352 GMT (2152 HKT)
story.berezovsky.jpg
Berezovsky wanted in Moscow for fraud and embezzlement.
MOSCOW, Russia (*******) -- Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, wants to leave Britain, where he has been given political asylum, and move to Ukraine, media quoted him as saying on Saturday.
Berezovsky, one of Russia's once-mighty and hugely wealthy "oligarchs," voiced his intention just days after the inauguration of Ukraine's new President Viktor Yushchenko, a Western-leaning liberal whose candidacy Putin publicly opposed.
"Yes, I want to move to Kiev," Berezovsky told Interfax news agency. "I don't want to do business in Kiev, I just want to live there."
A powerful Kremlin insider under ex-President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, Berezovsky lives in exile in London and wants to stir an opposition movement against Putin -- a man Berezovsky says he helped Yeltsin to pick as his successor.
In an interview with news Web site gazeta.ru, he said he was confident Ukraine's new leadership would not extradite him to Moscow, where he is wanted for fraud and embezzlement.
"There is the Geneva Convention on political refugees. This convention was signed by many countries, including Ukraine," said Berezovsky, who often travels under a fake name.
"I officially received refugee status in Britain and have the right to go to any country that signed this convention and be guaranteed that I will not be extradited to a country that does not abide by law," he added.
Yushchenko, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said he was not aware of Berezovsky's request
"One thing is sure. We will be acting in strict compliance with domestic and international laws...in this context," he told reporters.
Yushchenko, elected in December, has pledged to work towards Ukraine's greater integration with Western Europe while maintaining good ties with neighboring Russia. Putin had publicly backed his more pro-Moscow opponent in the election but later acknowledged Yushchenko's victory.
Berezovsky sees Moscow's campaign against him as part of Putin's drive to subdue the "oligarchs" of the 1990s -- men who made fortunes in the privatization of state assets after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Berezovsky said he would to move to the Ukrainian capital in the next few months.