A trip through memory lane.
10 years ago Berezovsky was the "Godfather of the Kremlin." Now the British public is treating him as a fair and unbiased source of information.
For your reading pleasure, here is the piece by the (now murdered) Paul Klebnikov:
Godfather of the Kremlin? 12.30.96
Power. Politics. Murder. Boris Berezovsky could teach the guys in Sicily a thing or two. LAST NOVEMBER Ronald Lauder, billionaire heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune, traveled to Moscow to celebrate the opening of a posh boutique on Red Square. That evening Russian and American business leaders, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering and President Boris Yeltsin's wife attended a party in Lauder's honor.
The host of the lavish affair? A wealthy Russian car dealer named Boris Berezovsky.
Ronald Lauder probably did not know that his host is a powerful gangland boss and the prime suspect in Russia's most famous murder investigation. Explains Lauder: "The invitations went out in President Yeltsin's name."
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1996/1230/5815090a_print.html
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