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HISTORICAL FACTS: Boris berezovsky | History Defined

Poison, a plane crash and falling from a window: How Putin’s critics and rivals have met mysterious ends

IN FOCUS: Alexei Navalny is latest in long line of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have died in recent years. James C. Reynolds, Gustaf Kilander and Alexander Butler report

The Independent UK

Putin as a Russian James Bond? Jude Law’s Vladimir film seems to have swallowed Kremlin myths

In The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law plays Russia’s president as a cool, reluctant leader, a strategist who got the job because he was young, athletic and a spy. This is a creation far removed from the man himself

The Guardian - UK

Roman Abramovich under investigation in Jersey over corruption and money-laundering claims

Swiss bank account data to be disclosed to island’s chief legal adviser who is looking at source of former Chelsea FC owner’s Sibneft billions

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The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figure

The Guardian - UK

The Wizard of the Kremlin, Venice review – Jude Law is an intense, torso-baring Putin in this mediocre drama

3/5 Olivier Assayas’s new film – starring Paul Dano as a fictional Russian politician – has some anarchic energy to it, but it lacks nuance and insight overall

The Independent UK

Deceitful, cold and unempathetic: 25 years on, the Kursk submarine disaster reveals a lot about Putin’s personality

During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of political and economic challenges, including the Chechen wars, conflict in Iraq, and the unchecked power of Russia’s oligarchs. He also faced a major tragedy that he handled disastrously, and which undermined his image as a strong and competent…

The Conversation

Vladimir Putin: After 25 years in power, what next for Russia’s president?

From chasing rats as a child to the KGB, how 72-year-old Putin came to power – and what drives him now.

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The Kremlin’s Noose by Amy Knight review – vital primer on Putin’s Russia and Boris Berezovsky’s death

The American historian and expert on Russia has written a definitive study of the flamboyant life and mysterious death of the oligarch, a confidant of Yeltsin and a man to whom Putin was once indebted

The Guardian - UK

The mysterious, violent and unsolved deaths of Putin’s foes and critics

Alexei Navalny is latest of Putin’s opponents to have died over course of Russian leader’s nearly 25 years in power

The Guardian - UK

France Sells Late Putin Enemy's Riviera Chateau

A French Riviera chateau seized from late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been sold to an undisclosed buyer, according to France's agency for handling confiscated assets.

International Business Times

Under Putin, the uber-wealthy Russians known as 'oligarchs' are still rich but far less powerful

When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed “Russian oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers

The Independent UK

Twenty years of ruthlessness: how Russia has silenced Putin’s opponents

From poisonings to shootings to falls from windows and now possibly plane crashes, Kremlin has been accused of numerous lethal attacks

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Patriots; All of It; Yours Unfaithfully – review

Peter Morgan’s oligarch drama transfers to the West End with added historical weight; Kate O’Flynn evokes the mastery of Billie Whitelaw; and a lost 30s play about open marriage is a real find

The Guardian - UK

Patriots: What is the true story behind the hit Tom Hollander play?

The play sees Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Putin change from friends to enemies

Evening Standard

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Patriots at the Noel Coward review: Tom Hollander is incandescent in this story of the fight for Russia’s soul

This hectic, tragicomic tale has already gained new weight and prescience as it transfers into the West End from the Almeida

Reason

"She Confessed That Her Husband Killed Alexander and Herself Died a Month Later at the Age of 28. That's Strange": Libel by Implication?

From Judge John Cronan's decision Tuesday in Goldfarb v. Channel One Russia(S.D.N.Y.): Plaintiff Alex Goldfarb claims that Defendant Channel One Russia … libeled him and intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon him through statements made during four television programs it broadcast in 2018. Those statements, Goldfarb claims, either asserted or implied…

The Guardian - UK

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis

Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Patriots; The Tempest; King Lear

Tom Hollander excels in Peter Morgan’s incisive oligarch drama; Deborah Warner directs a fine Tempest; and Michelle Terry plays both the Fool and Cordelia to Kathryn Hunter’s Lear

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The Independent UK

Patriots review: Tom Hollander gives one of the performances of the year in Peter Morgan’s play

Although written before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, this political play by the writer of ‘The Crown’ taps into current world events with masterful precision

The Guardian - UK

Patriots review – Peter Morgan’s compelling study of Russian dissidence

Tom Hollander stars as Boris Berezovsky in The Crown creator’s new drama, which has a show-stealing performance by Will Keen as Vladimir Putin

Evening Standard

Patriots at the Almeida Theatre review: Tom Hollander stars in Peter Morgan’s cracking oligarchs’ tale

Rupert Goold’s witty production about the oligarch who arguably created Putin and was then destroyed by him is sadly very timely

Benzinga

5 Critics Of Vladimir Putin Who Died In Dubious Ways

Vladamir Putin is known to the world for many things; most recently, though, he’s the Russian president who sent an army to invade Ukraine on Feb. 24.

The Guardian - UK

Once Upon a Time in Londongrad review – a blazing fireball that could topple our democracy

This true-crime documentary looks at 14 London deaths that point the finger at Putin – and how our weak governance has led to a shady system that threatens the very rule of law

The Guardian - UK

The Crown’s Peter Morgan to premiere play about Russian oligarchs

Patriots will open at the Almeida in London and star Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky, with Vladimir Putin and Roman Abramovich among the characters

Financial Times

Poison, planes and Putin: Abramovich’s race to save a fortune and stop the war

Since Ukraine was invaded, the Russian oligarch has been rushing to salvage his assets while conducting back-channel peace talks

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