"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.
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.
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.
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.
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