Friday, August 31, 2012

"To the Russian people both these gentlemen are criminals and thieves."
Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky on the Abramovich-Berezovsky court case over the division of the spoils.
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2 comments:

Chris Hall said...

He'd be right. Although quite why we have the spectacle of 2 billionaires who made a killing from the breakdown of the USSR in a British court I don't know.

9:23 pm
Jemmy Hope said...

Well, the super-rich always get a sympathetic hearing in British courts, especially when they require their critics to be silenced. In a court case involving two rival kleptocrats one must be the loser. As it turns out the richer (by far) kleptocrat won.

10:38 am

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