well ahead a close look at the colorful life and mysterious death of. the fast rising russian oligarchy became a vocal critic of the kremlin. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite touch if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t. anytime anywhere. they called him the face of business and government. he was a gambler so money came second to heading the russian mafia inside the kremlin it

was enough for boris just raises eyebrows to make gangsters appear. he was a great cardinal of russian politics 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 my moderates that his death has attracted so much attention. a landmark 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 up some qualities of people i knew personally or was influenced by by knowing them is quite difficult to create entirely new persona you always come up with a car with some. reminding you of someone and yes

it was part of that image that i've created but he certainly wasn't the only one. probably borrowed some of his biographical details and some of his 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 eight hundred thousand this famous horse races frequented by the country's elite now it has a new claim to fame. better spent his final years before a mysterious death. you

got for me what you deserved he says to himself as he looks from the other world. he had died in poverty at the age of eighty seated in a rocking chair. the british social system would have just sent a nurse to care for him. she had had to wipe his dripping nose they give him slippers to stop his legs from swelling i just can't imagine that. he was destined to die before that and that's what he did what he did elegantly and nicely using a silk scarf deal. with. the well known russian lawyer of french descent alexander. has long been defending the interests of russian oligarchs there was a time when he was on good terms with better. but

the invitation was declined. i don't like crazy people he was obsessed with the idea. the tale would work out in the end. you always have to work with crazy people with the money but when one of them is obsessed with politics it's hard to work with them. politics and we are completely different things. better he was equally insistent in calling on you to join the opposition but failed again at the sinister rest of the nineties was now the target of derision and jokes nobody took him seriously anymore alexander 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. credible 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 his james bond. with a scarf but not before saying to him. we're going to strangle you after that they reduce to i went down to level tory with the sewerage later to emerge in the kremlin. shortly before his death row to penitential 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 too well let's just saying forgive me 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. overseas but it. knows firsthand that you're in the 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 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 pointed to 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 died better 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 would russia fortunes were being made in months even weeks but better. 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 he wanted to be talked and written about well even if it was derogatory he said there is no black or white p.r. there is only. finally opened up forty years of age. threw himself into business. and became a key business figure in the country. t.v. interview 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. one hundred forty million rubles. money to the one rule. that made it possible for him to. make money from off. he liked under the friendship with the family. controlled. industry but still he wanted more.

could bring in the really big money. even members of his family. when he showed them with lavish gifts this will he found a weak link to. the president's younger daughter tatiana. she had been married several times she wasn't chanted by bears so was yeltsin's wife nyima who heard many good things about the entrepreneur from her daughter both were frequent guests a lot of was where 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 nine hundred ninety four when better limousine was blown up the driver died instantly decapitated by the blast the target's body guards and several innocent bystanders sustained serious injuries miraculously self escaped unharmed.

i thought to be burned alive if i stayed in the car but if i got out it was a shoot me my driver died but in fact he saved my life because as usual he forgot to lock the door i just got out it was an incredible sensation it's not even like being reborn it's a sense of purity what's happened before is of no importance all your problems are unimportant you have an airy feeling overwhelming. on that day he unusually took the backseat with a blast caused little how many would later speculate that the only god must a mind to the attempt on his own life to join russia is ruling elite. sense to the apex of power began. wealthy british style.

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the murder attempt provided better is all scheme. the ticket to the presidential club. of the highest officials associated to yeltsin and his family they met only a few times and better. suffering for the ideals of entrepreneurship he was a laughing stock after the car bomb that was the first time he appeared among the elite in the early ninety's even nicknamed him smoky they were all glamorous people and suddenly the a man with burnt hairs on his bald head and a bandage face this way he takes advantage of the opportunity to attract attention be heard and take another step forward in his career at first better he had no real power he set himself a different tosk he simply wanted to be seen among the president's in a. as he could to impress on ole that he was welcome at the highest levels.

he was very funny i think it was very important for him to establish himself in the kremlin and make it clear to everybody that he. was there he was fond of making phone calls from the kremlin he would say that he was calling from the waiting room of this official or that official he felt it was very important for him to see the official in question after sitting in the waiting room for a long time but getting no concrete decision from him. of the inner circle created his image they would say for us just. bend the gunmen in the gangsters 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 better off he was often seen in georgia with another eccentric multimillionaire. with. a handsome face and

a liking for flashy ties. business friendship and a fondness for x. into. city 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. later that he'd been up to his ears in crime it was badgering who did the dirty work that the jewel was responsible for. really would die just as suddenly as. a heart attack his funeral would be attended by almost half of tbilisi's population. and even former president shevardnadze. he would not pay his last respects to his friend he feared he could be arrested. death was a terrible blow to. the ninety's they had together moved from being ordinary

businessmen to becoming rulers of destiny. as a complete surprise to everyone he left his office in the evening and somebody called me at two am to tell me. i usually control myself in any situation but on that occasion i cursed the secretary. i said every word i knew i couldn't believe it. to the funeral of had given all his assets to. he would not be able to get them back off to bed trees death because they contracted with a handshake. last financial support after death. was left with no money because battery had hidden it somewhere but nobody knew exactly where on top of that. because he lost a good deal of money he could no longer afford to fund activities.

with a life he influenced georgian politics with his image the t.v. channel bet. gained political weight by controlling several russian t.v. broadcasters and the country's most successful publishing house. was in a human rights campaigner. committee activist. for political competition. but he knew how far he could push journalists. between truth and truth. the difference between half truths. 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 the country because he feared prosecution not political persecution. should be kept at 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. election in one thousand nine hundred ninety six by using his media assets after he became a leading figure in the president's. thoughts . i think politics all the time that's what i like. the right to do and that's what happened here the simple answer you can't imagine how much.

support for the election confronted with a conflict between. in business and special services. he had to find his own chief bodyguard who had openly been involved in a disagreement with. their 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 the end of 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 in my days a 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 russian general. was the most of these time elapsing issue at the time. back home by taking advantage of his longstanding contacts in chechnya 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 it 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 war 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 so certain that 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. and. 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. continued to. 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. trusted confidant it became clear towards the. health reasons. 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. my will i can't. do or i'm going to keep them because i already think. i'll go back as soon as the prosecutor. trying to create a political 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. the

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. control of. 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. all say whatever you want to hear me say yes i'm guilty. and he walked off to buy some pictures. losing. two hundred million pounds. even more in money.

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. business with. money. and even to the president.

and at the end of his life there was no way back for him. that's a meteorite. leap . ten thousand tons told through space towards russian league. with the power. of a nuclear bomb. should have been sky full on r.t. .

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