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the face of business and government. it was enough. to make. the. presidential. the country. has attracted so much attention. a learned figure in russian business exemplified nine hundred ninety s. russia he made millions while his country. 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 wrote 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 eight hundred thousand famous horse races frequented by the

country's elite now it has a new claim to fame. spent his final years before a mysterious death. god 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 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 legs from swelling. can't imagine that. before that that's what he did. he did. the. french to alexander. defending the interests of russian oligarchs

there was a time when he was on good terms with the. 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. never knew how the tale would work out in the end. you always have to work with crazy people with someone but when one of them is obsessed with politics it's hard to work with them on. politics and we are completely different things. better he was equally insistent in calling on you to join the opposition but failed to gain the sinister rest butin of the ninety's was now the target of derision and jokes nobody took him seriously anymore alexander the doesn't believe better off 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 that i will be with you shortly before his death row to penitential letter to put in criminal cases against him to be dropped and to be allowed to return. for my 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 partnership in exchange for something otherwise he wouldn't have written a letter. of the in. veera threat to several russian nurses. overseas but it. knows firsthand 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 any part of the 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 worked in one thousand russia fortunes were being made in months even weeks but meteoric rise 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 even if it was derogatory he said there's no black or white p.r. there's only. and. 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 into the one rule. that made it possible for him to. make money from off. under the of 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 counted by bears so was yeltsin's wife nyima 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 nine hundred ninety four when better limousine was blown up the driver died instantly decapitated by the blast the targets bodyguards and several innocent bystanders

sustained serious injuries miraculously. escaped and. burned alive if i stayed in the car but if i got out they should meet my driver but in fact he saved my life because as usual he'd forgotten to lock the door i just. it was an incredible sensation it's not 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 mini would later speculate that the only god could muster mind to the attempt on his own life to join russia's ruling elite. to the apex of power.

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welcome to the big picture. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about seventy odd p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see in troy. visit. the murder attempt provided better with a 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 laughingstock of to the car bomb that was the first time he appeared among the

elite in the early ninety's we even nicknamed him smokey they were all glamorous people and suddenly they saw the a man with burnt hairs on his bald head and a bandage face only. this way he takes advantage of the opportunity to attract attention heard and take another step forward in his career at first better he had no real power he set himself a different task he simply wanted to be seen among the president's. 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 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. the inner circle created his image they would say for us just. 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 he was often seen in georgia with another eccentric multi-millionaire. with. a handsome face and a liking for flashy ties. business friendship and a fondness for eccentricity and self promotion. i remember in my waiting room for hours on end. timidly holding his hands like this when he brought bad dream to me for the first time he made a better impression. looked kind of later that he'd been up to his ears in crime

it was bad or who did the dirty work that the jewel was responsible for. just. of 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 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 better he had given all his assets to. he would not be able to get them back after batteries death because they contracted being sealed with a handshake. last financial support after death. was left with no money because had hidden it somewhere but nobody knew exactly where on top of. because he lost a good deal of money he could no longer afford to fund activities. with the life he influenced georgian politics with his image the t.v. channel. 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. and used 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. 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. 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 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. here. you can't imagine how much. needed both financial support for the election confronted with a conflict between business and special services. in a disagreement with. twenty nine hundred ninety six i left the kremlin and i took no part in further events. should

think about repenting. 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 that was also he was given control of the significance for practically nothing he was also made a high ranking government official deputy secretary of the security council to settle a 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 at the. time elapsing issue at the time.

he brought captured soldiers 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 and gets into the plane. is a group of journalists on the apron. to liberate or appears on the stairs it was a constant feature on the r t channel. that he grabbed all the glory. at that time a wise 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. but. 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 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 russia's security council. influence on the media 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. 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. the country against my will i can't. do or i'm going to kick the bucket because i

already think. it was a. prosecutor. trying to create a political party to influence the course. of the presidential election in two thousand and four. former security council head mysteriously disappeared before the vote. 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. intelligence.

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 a. 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 the opposition became the butt of many jokes. of power in russia even prompted the british authorities to issue a warning that his political asylum could be reviewed. six or

seven years ago. he said my still the country's principle. still being demonized. and this is what i said to him. you want to hear me say yes i'm guilty. he walked off to buy some pictures. losing. two hundred million pounds. in money. remains with the. market value he also had to cut down service and security. people who in the months before his death he was taking antidepressants. did 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 opened the door and even to the president. and at the end of his life there was no way back for him. that's a meteorite. ten

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