the british. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy. for a no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser report. he became a symbol of the nine hundred ninety s. . to the russian mafia in the kremlin. it was a twentieth century arrest. in just a few years he rose from junior

a multi-billion and senior politician. and was as rapid as his meteoric rise and ended in exile his death is now as mysterious as his life. let me let me let me ask you a question. here on this network as we're having a debate we have our knives out. to get this right but it's a bad thing to get here in a situation where being free to talk about your name and. they called him the face of business and government he's a he was a gambler the money came second heading the russian metha inside the kremlin it was

enough for boris just raises eyebrows to make gangsters appear for which he was a great cardinal of russian politics or he was a big time political adventurer some even called him a lot today rest putin the embodiment of evil in boris yeltsin's presidential court am i supposed to put on a grieving face and talk about people across the country mourning his demise on the contrary the moderates that his death has attracted so much attention. i learned figure in russian business exemplified nine hundred ninety s. russia he made millions while his country starved he was the subject of several books and the basis for many crime movie villains and i picked qualities of people i knew personally or was influenced by. them it's quite difficult to create an entirely new persona you always come up with a car. reminding you of someone and.

it was part of that image that i've created but he certainly wasn't the only one i probably borrowed some of his biographical details and. personality traits there is also he wanted to be a living legend in his lifetime in that he succeeded his sudden death is as big a mystery as his rapid rise to the peak of russian business and government. the english town of ascot forty kilometers from london has a population of about eighteen fells and is famous for horse races frequented by the country's elite now it has a new claim to fame. spent his final years before a mysterious death. for

me what you deserved he says to himself as he looks from the other world. which he had died in poverty at the age of eighty seated in a rocking chair in the british social system would have just sent a nurse to care for him. she had had to wipe his dripping nose and give him slippers to stop his. can't imagine that. before that that's what he did. he did. the. french to alexander. the interests of russian oligarchs there was a time when he was on good terms with. business into power the wealthy entrepreneur

. to be his lawyer but the invitation was declined. i don't like crazy people he was obsessed with the idea. you never knew how the tale would work out in the end. you always have to work with crazy people with so much but when one of them is obsessed with politics it's hard to work with them. politics and we are completely different things. he was equally insistent in calling on you to join the opposition but failed to gain the sinister rest of the ninety's was now the target of derision and jokes nobody took him seriously anymore alexander the doesn't believe better he was murdered by special services what would have been the point of killing him he had long since ceased to be a threat. still but it's an incredible number of people might say that security agents. britons the americans or irishman got into the

bathroom through the lavatory by dissolving into a molecular state. to realizing is james bond. with a scar but not before saying to him. we're going to strangle you after that they get reduced to molecules i went down to level tory with the stewards later to emerge in the kremlin. shortly before his death row to potential to put in criminal cases against him to be dropped and to be allowed to return. former head of security believes that better promise to hand over secret files on certain officials and businessmen in return for a pardon or. understood only to well let's just saying. i won't do it again wouldn't be enough i'm almost certain that he would only expect a pardon to shoot an exchange for something otherwise he wouldn't have written

a letter. of the in. if you're a threat to several russian nurses. overseas but. knows first hand that you're in the one nine hundred ninety s. . compromising material on some of russia's top businessmen and officials he has no doubt that better plans to use it against one of the country's oligarchs. they're trying to find that archive i think that's why they did. what he called the president he said. pardon me if i come back and i can incriminate a few people to your liking and he put it in some interesting pieces of information simply writing a letter or talking in an interview with forbes would have been a foolish thing to do and i don't think he was a fool or a madman. before. he had lost the cold case

of the century one russian oligarch. demanded that another. pay him five billion pounds owed from a deal with the oil company. it was unable to produce any evidence that had pocketed money that didn't belong to him in those times deals with sealed with handshakes rather than signature. business worked in russia fortunes were being made in months or even weeks but. outstripped everybody. lifestyle was a bit like a nuclear reactor in fact he was a nuclear reactor constantly generating and spewing out excess energy and of course no one despite how healthy a person is like that for a long time and then comes the apathy. he was the orchestra conductor and the center of the universe he wanted to be the focus of everybody's attention and he wanted to be talked and written about well even if it

was derogatory he said there's no black or white p.r. there's only. it was typical. to a ph d. in mathematics. at the academy. finally opened up forty years of age threw himself into business. and became a key business figure in the country. t.v. interview was for ukrainian. politics i was ready to spend any amount of money to achieve political. spending fifteen. that was the most effective business project in my life.

to build it. he claimed the project. would get their revenge. to. one hundred forty million rubles. money by sticking to the one rule that he set for himself in the ninety's. that made it possible for him to plunder. make money from off and. he liked under the his friendship with the family. already controlled. industry but still he wanted more. with the highest authorities could bring in the really big money. officials and even

members of his family. well he showered them with lavish gifts. he found a weak link to. the president's younger daughter tatiana. she had been married several times she wasn't. so was yeltsin's wife naive who heard many good things about the entrepreneur from her daughter both were frequent guests was a french chef served sumptuous food in the relationship simplified gifts and money with money and gifts nothing else but turning point came on june the seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety four when better limousine was blown up the driver died instantly decapitated by the blast targets several innocent bystanders sustained serious injuries miraculously.

if i stayed in the car but if i got out they should meet my driver but in fact he saved my life. i just. it was an incredible sensation it's like being reborn it's a sense of. what's happened before is of no importance problems. you have an airy feeling overwhelming. unusually took the backseat with a little how many would later speculate that the only god must a mind to the attempt on his own life to join russia's ruling elite. to the apex of power began. mission free credit take free. free. free free. free

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the murder attempt provided better with a ticket to the presidential club a small circle of the highest officials associated to yeltsin and his family they met only a few times and better his role was that of suffering for the ideals of entrepreneurship because he was a laughingstock after the car bomb that was the first time he appeared among the elite in the early ninety's who even nicknamed him smokey they were all glamorous people and suddenly they saw the man with burnt hairs on his bald head and a bandage face this way he takes advantage of the opportunity to attract attention

heard and take another step forward in his career at first bettors also he had no real power he said himself a different task he simply wanted to be seen among the presidents in as often as he could to impress on ole that he was welcome at the highest levels. was very funny i think it was there important for him to establish himself in the kremlin and make it clear to everybody. he. was there he was fond of making phone calls from the kremlin calling from the waiting room of this official or that official felt it was very important for him to question after a sitting in the waiting room for a long time but getting no concrete decision from him. the inner circle created his image they would say. just. the gunmen in the

game are all going to show up instantly look at him. they'd exclaim but actually he was a completely different person around the same time. with another eccentric multimillionaire . with. a handsome face and a liking for flashy ties. business friendship and. promotion. i remember in my waiting room for hours on end. holding his hands like this when he brought bad dream to me for the first time he made a better impression. and crime it was bad or who did the dirty work that the jew was responsible for. just. a heart attack his funeral would be attended by almost half of tbilisi's

population. and even if. he would not pay his last respects to his friend he could be arrested. death was a terrible blow to. the ninety's they had together moved from being ordinary business men to becoming rulers of destiny. as a complete surprise to everyone. i said i couldn't believe it. to the funeral had given all his assets to. he would not be able to get them back off to bed because they. lost financial support after

death. was left with no money because. nobody knew exactly where. because he lost a good deal of money he could no longer afford to fund the activities. he influenced georgian politics with his t.v. channel. gain political weight by controlling several russian t.v. broadcasters and the country's most successful publishing house. wasn't a human rights campaign. committee activist. and use the media as an instrument for political competition. but he knew how far he could push journalists. between truth and truth. the difference between half truths.

with two high profile murders one was a t.v. adored by the public to reshape the t.v. advertising market. chief editor of forbes in russia he had written about financial dealings but there was no proof that he was involved. no doubt. because he feared prosecution not political persecution he wants to clear. should be kept a distance from the authorities disable the mechanism that he made it possible for himself to make money by maintaining close links with the government. played a key role in boris yeltsin's reelection in one thousand nine hundred ninety six by using his media assets after that he became a leading figure in the president's. thoughts

. i think politics all the time that's what i like why do you. have you the right to do that that's what happened here the simple answer you can't imagine how much i love it. both financial support for the election confronted with a conflict between business and special services. involved in a disagreement with. other oligarchs. twenty nine hundred ninety six i left the kremlin and i took no part in further events. should think about repenting their own sins i've never been like that i didn't raise him so high. i once said i'd live long enough to see him and a few others so far he's the only one who's gone.

after the success of yeltsin's presidential campaign there was also he was given control of the signal for practically nothing he was also made a high ranking government official deputy secretary of the security council to settle the conflict in chechnya. was my days are very interesting case when i get down to stealing an oil pipeline or pump oil out of it certainly not i thought it was the all important for business politics and for russians general this was the most disturbing lasting issue at the time. back home by taking advantage of his longstanding contacts and. t.v. channels that he controlled repeatedly pictures of men rescued from chips in a captivity. the airliner touches down and

stops some distant short of the airport building comes to the airport and gets into the plane. it approaches a group of journalists on the apron. to liberate or appears on the stairs it was a constant feature on the teach channel. that he grabbed all the glory. at that time white people were still unaware of the fact that the time would come when they pay a heavy price for that glory. nearly all analysts for. politics was an extension of his business so he only tackled the problems in chechnya so he'd be able to win contracts for its restoration. they said that his office he expected to get gazprom and the rest of the russian federation as well as c. but you have to that was a conspiracy theory. ready had enough and simply needed to protect what i have.

the means of creating a stable political system. so that food. after winning the election there were only two official meetings between them only one appearance with yeltsin was broadcast on t.v. that was when he was being appointed to the post of executive secretary or something for security council. influence on the media if he'd had a hundred meetings with i'm certain. unable to influence. the confidence of the president's elder daughter. she was the president's most trusted confidant it became clear towards the end would have to leave early for health reasons. convinced that he had made the choice

and was sure the new president would appreciate his efforts. brought him down he had to go because his time. and. trouble. and. the country against my will i can't. do or i'm going to kick the bucket because i already think. it was a special. prosecutor. trying

to create a political party to influence the course. of the presidential election in two thousand and four. former security council had mysteriously disappeared before the vote. was mentioned some claim he arranged. to disrupt the ballot. possibility. that i don't think i'm in a position to say in front of cold feet that he betrayed me or anything. russian intelligence officer. was murdered. with. british intelligence accused. but he is convinced that it was in fact. obviously lying we have all the records of little interrogations they contain no mention of anything like that that means this. was in charge of

security for the t.v. . control. exposing his former chief. pay sixty million rubles to anyone who would give putin away because he allegedly came to power illegitimately and that was complete nonsense it makes absolutely no sense. over time. oppositionist became the butt of many jokes. of power in russia even prompted the british authorities to issue a warning that his political asylum status could be reviewed. six or seven years ago. he said still the country's principle. still being demonized. and this is what i said to.

you want to hear you say yes i'm guilty. he walked off to buy some garish pictures. losing. two hundred million pounds. even more money. remains with a. market value he also had to cut down service and security. people. in the months before his death he was taking antidepressants. smoke before but not much then at one point he started smoking two packs a day and drinking heavily his personality began to split he would say one thing in the morning but it would be something different at lunch time or in the evening several times in november he said that he'd lost the meaning of life and realized

that he made many mistakes. and business was synonymous money opened the door and even to the president. would no longer work and at the end of his life he knew there was no way back for him. wealthy british style. sometimes tight. tight. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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