Podcast appearances and mentions of boris berezovsky

Phil is joined again by the lawyer David Hooper, who has a new edition of his book Buying Silence coming out. David is one of the world's great campaigners for open, affordable justice and a fierce opponent of the practice - common in London - of the legal suppression of free speech. He acted for Vanity Fair in its long and bitter case against Mohamed Al Fayed, in the notorious Boris Berezovsky affair and in many other cases where money and power combine to suppress fair criticism and comment. Mixing colourful and often funny anecdotes of his legal battles with a clarion call for a new and better system, David is a most entertaining guest.You can buy his book at our own bookshop...https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/buying-silence-how-oligarchs-corporations-and-plutocrats-use-the-law-to-gag-their-critics-david-hooper/7539510?aid=12054&ean=9781785908316There's also information and extracts from Phil's new book here...https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/homeYou can order his book now on Amazon UK and Amazon India, Australia and New Zealand...https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#***We now have a Thank You button (next to the 'three dots') for small donations that help support our work***Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you'd like to get scandalous with? We're here to help...https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.THE SCANDAL MONGERS PODCAST is also available to watch on YouTube...https://www.youtube.com/@thescandalmongerspodcastThe Scandal Mongers...https://x.com/mongerspodcastPhil Craig...https://x.com/philmcraigYou can get in touch with the show via...team@podcastworld.org(place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many of you know that a B'nai B'rith organization gave birth to the ADL while defending its Atlanta chapter president Leo Frank. Frank raped and murdered a 13 year old girl who he was also employing along with many other teens, against child labor laws. Leo Frank ran a pencil factory sweatshop and often flirted with his illegal underage employees. The ADL was formed to defend him when he murdered and raped Mary Phagan. The details were disgusting. Her underwear was ripped and bloody and she was strangled to death with a wire. Her head had also been pummeled with a pipe. She went to get her paycheck of a meager $1.20 and never returned home. She was raped and murdered and then her body was dragged to the basement. Police found strands of her hair and blood on the floor above right across from Frank's office. Frank nervously revealed the victims name in front of police before they had given him any such details. The ADL was going to get him released based purely on the fact that He was Jewish and a high profile crime made Jews look bad. Arguably a Jewish organization trying to get a child murderer off the hook, makes Jews look worse. They would like one to believe that he was innocent with fake news history and will tell you so on Wikipedia which has Israelis paid to edit it. Leo admitted on the witness stand to the jury that he was “unconsciously” at the scene of the crime when the murder occurred. What we don't know, is if he raped her before or after killing her. The grand jury voted 21 – 0 for indicting him. Four of those jurors were Jewish. That shouldn't matter, but it does because later the ADL would try to argue that the jury wrongly convicted him because of antisemitism rather than because all the evidence showed that he did it in everyone's eyes. He was convicted. After the Judge, Leonard Roan, rejected all the appeals, he ordered Leo to be hanged on his birthday April 17, 1913. However Frank who was unanimously elected president of the B'nai Brith Chapter again even after being convicted of rape and murder had one last method to weasel out. He with Jewish pressure groups, appealed to the Governor. The lame-duck governor, John M. Slaton, in a very Clinton-esk move, commuted Leo's sentence his last week in office. He changed it from the death penalty to life in prison.Frank was knifed in prison by an inmate who took justice into their own hands. William Creen used a butcher knife and cut Leo's throat severely injuring him. On August 16th a mob broke into the prison captured Leo Frank and took him 2 miles away and hanged him. Although they took photographs no one in town would identify them. Of course the ADL twisted the story to say that these men were motivated by antisemitism and not that they hated him for raping and murdering a child. To see Southern Justice click hereThe ADL would fight to have him given a posthumous pardon which he got in 1986. Fred Grimm of the Miami Herald said in response to the pardon, “A salve for one of the South's most hateful, festering memories, was finally applied” showing his own prejudice towards the South rather than admitting a well known exploiter of child labor, who raped and killed a young girl and was unanimously convicted for the crime and sentenced to death was killed even after weaseling a pardon by an outgoing governor. Fred Grimm is constantly chasing down and doing stories about “Neo-Confederates” and “Neo-Nazis” as if either one are some huge bane and influence in modern society. Ironically it is groups like Antifa who act like ISIS tearing down American Statues and assaulting people. Despite having entire cities burned civilian homes and all by Lincoln's terrorists, not once in 150 years has a Southerner attacked a Union monument. Yelling racism at everything is fun though because it exercises safe moral indignation. That the US recently invaded Libya and have caused a country to be run by Al Qaeda terrorists who have revived the institution of slavery, selling humans for $400 in the market, doesn't seem to bother these same people so much as statues of Confederate generals. Apparently the Union military generals like Custer who rode west and committed genocide on Native Americans immediately following the Civil War, or enslaving the Chinese to build railroads, doesn't count as racism either.The ADL itself was created with Jewish mafia money. With connections to Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz, Bugsy Siegal, and illegal arms trafficker Hank Greenspun. The ADL gave Jewish gangster Moe Dalitz the Torch of Liberty Award. Dalitz was partnered with Galvastan's Sam Marceo and his brother Rosario of international narcotic trafficking fame. Dalitz and Sam began with a bootlegging gig. And it was the Maceo brothers who with Dalitz financed the Desert Inn Casio (where Frank Sinatra got his first Vegas gig). Interesting note, Sam's sister Olivia married Joseph Fertitta. You probably know the famous former owners of the UFC Frank III and Lorenzo Fertitta. They're all “family”. Maceo died only a year after purchasing the casino and it quickly went into the Fertitta side of the family. Dalitz not only did business with Maceo, he ran with the Mayfield Road gang in Ohio who had a branch dubbed the Collinwood Crew nicknamed the Young Turks. This is a very fitting name considering that the ADL denies the Armenian genocide. They even fired a New England Director Andrew H. Tarsy because he broke rank and called it a genocide. See killing 1,500,000 people isn't genocide because nothing is allowed to compete with the Holocaust victimhood.Moe Dalitz at Desert InnDalitz was an early business partner with Abe Berstien of the murderous Purple Gang. They used to murder motorists for sport. That didn't bother the ADL. In 1985 they gave Moe an award. Moe would become the Mob Boss of Cleveland, even tough most of his operations would move and center on Vegas. His businesses however were all over the United States. Dalitz was not only a close confidant of Meyer Lansky, the two co-owned the Frolic Club in Miami. (p.6)The Desert Inn casino also took investments from convicted illegal arms smuggler Hank Greenspun, who was not only invested but became the publicist as well. He owned the Las Vegas Sun and pulled a money laundering scheme with advertising that was similar to what Boris Berezovsky repeated in Russia. Prior to that, he had been the publicist for another Mafia Casino, the Flamingo, which was run by Lanksy's childhood friend and murderer Bugsy Siegal. Greenspun's wife was given top honors by the ADL. Her husband attempted to smuggle 42 Pratt and Whitney R2800 LOW airplane engines to Palestine when the Haganah terrorist group was creating the state of Israel through ethnic cleansing.After jury tampering, with the sole Jewish Juror meeting with the defense, Greenspun and two of his cohorts William Sosnow, and Samuel Lewis were acquitted, but his other partners Adolph Schwimmer, Leon Gardner, Renoyld Selk, and Abraham Levin, were convicted.But Greenspun would be found guilty of smuggling the machine guns that would go with the planes as well as artillery and ammo. He stole 30 and 50 cal machine guns from Hawaii and shipped them to the Haganah in Palestine through Mexico. When he was indicted Greenspun tried to bribe his way out. He offered $25,000 to Seth Solomon Pope “or anyone else designated by Pope” to “quash” a second Neutrality Act indictment against him. Solomon worked in Hawaii at the War Assets Administration, in charge of decommissioning and selling off WWII surplus. He was most likely the original contact for the smuggling. The man was investigated three time for fraudulent sales. They also stole over 500 machine gun barrels. Reportedly Hank took an addition 10% Kickback from arms sales he made. A Grand Jury in Los Angeles indicted Hank and six other of violating the Neutrality Act and Export Control Law, Title 50 United States Code section 701 and Title 22 United Stated Code, section 452. However he got only a 10k fine and no jail time. Greenspun was paid through the SSE. The SSE was a front for the AJDC's Lishka which financed communist and Bricha illegal immigration. The Jewish Agency which was the government in waiting that organized the terrorist groups that formed Israel, facilitated the cash flow to gun runners like Hank. In “Concealed in the Open: Recipients of International Clandestine Jewish Aid in Early 1950s Hungary” Zachary Paul Levine, of Yeshiva University Museum writes.“The JDC-Israeli collaboration that formed around clandestine emigration to Israel and welfare to migrants filled the vacuum with the creation of two institutions. The first was created in 1952 by the Israeli government's Liaison Bureau of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or Lishka by its Hebrew acronym, which collected information and administered individual aid. The second was created in Switzerland in 1953. Known as the Society for Mutual Aid (SSE by its French acronym), this organization directed AJDC funds to the Lishka and represented Jewish aid providers' interests to communist governments” …”However, as an American organization at the height of the McCarthy “Red Scare,” AJDC administrators could hardly justify the appearance of sending cash or material into a state with which the U.S. was technically engaged in “economic warfare.” In March 1953, the AJDC and Lishka together established the SSE, a “paper organization” that “covered” the AJDC-Israeli partnership, and provided a means for regularized AJDC funding for Lishka from the Joint's Relief-in-Transit budget that funded activities that might have contravened U.S. law (Beizer 2009: 117). The SSE's Swiss chairman, Erwin Haymann, had years of experience channeling money from the U.S. for Bricha and other clandestine activities. Funds traveled through the SSE and on to Lishka agents who received U.S. dollars or another western currency and exchanged them into Hungarian forints on the black market in Vienna. Subsequently, these forints traveled via diplomatic pouch or in the suitcase of an apparent traveler to the legation in Budapest, whose staff distributed the cash around the country.”We learned from declassified FBI documents that Erwin Haymann, the same man aiding communist on behalf of the JA is who made three transfers of 1.3 million dollars to Greenspun. Greenspun would later become the Western Director of bonds for Israel. Haymann sent the payments to Banco del Ahorro, Mexico by cable.Interesting, because 1.3 million is exactly how much Moe Dalitz sank into the Desert Inn Casino, which Greenspun was a publicist for and invested in, what a coincidence. If you are into Kennedy Research here is a cookie for you. Hungarian Jew Tibor Rosenbaum is the bridge between Meyer Lansky, Erwin Haymann, and heavy Florida-Cuba crime syndicate. …But I will leave that tangent alone. Greespun was known for having blackmail on political candidates, Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy even plotted to raid on the Vegas Sun vault in order to gain access to blackmail that Hank had on Howard Hughes. Hughes by the way bought Mafia properties like the Desert Inn Casino using millions in cash. They credit him with cleaning Vegas up from the mob, it was more like the mob took him to the cleaners. Dalitz ironically started out with a cash only dry cleaning business.Kennedy whose father was involved with the Outfit and the East Coast mob and who had a love affair with his friend Frank Sinatra's ex-girlfriend Judith Exner while she was also involved with Chicago mob boss Sam Giacanna. Sinatra introduced her to JFK. Kennedy gave Greenspun a pardon his first year in office. I wonder why. LBJ likewise was sleeping with Mathilde Krim who was also part of the Swiss connection who help Irgun terrorist. Johnson did all this while she was married to his campaign advisor Athur Krim, a willing cuck. It makes you rethink Monica Lewinsky doesn't it. Well Clinton did give Jewish Billionaire Marc Rich a pardon, after Rich donated $100,000 to the ADL. Rich was yet another crook in the Swiss connection.These are the founders and reward recipients of the ADL. The ADL was given defacto powers of an intelligence agency in the United State and it gathers intel on who it pleases. It is anything but an Anti-Defamation League. They defame people themselves. The ADL under the cover of fighting Anti-Semitism, simply uses this cry as a club to chase down and censor anyone critical of Zionism or the Israeli state. If you point out that Israeli snipers are shooting children in Palestine from across the border, then the ADL can get you removed. Vimeo stole $5,000 in profits from me and erased six years worth of my work because of my criticism of Israel. When the ADL partnered with YouTube December of 2008, my channel was gone the first day, and over a thousand videos were erased. No justification was needed, simply the accusation of antisemitism. When I made a complaint in my appeal I learned that the ADL would oversee the case. Of course I never had my channel restored nor was I even given an explanation from YouTube. Another wing of the ADL is the SPLC and they too have been granted censorship powers across social media. The ADL used the SPLC as both an attack dog and a buffer to separate itself from ramifications of its constant chicken little censorship. In the rare case of actual antisemitic groups online or otherwise the ADL has been busted reacting to its own creations as the “Nazis” they screech about turn out to be their own provocateurs.Birthed to defend a murdering child rapist, financed by mass murdering terrorists and organized crime, narcotic peddling, gun running, psychopaths formed the pro Zionist organizational bully called the ADL. They have been caught spying through American police departments, spying on American citizens, and even coaching American police on what they should be on the look out for and how Hate Crime means anything Israel doesn't like. And this is their great online weapon. The Zog Media already refuses to report on what Israel is doing to Palestine, the Israeli role in orchestrating the Iraq War, and the Proxy War on Syria. People have been giving the information online. Naturally the ADL has been censoring such journalist all while screaming antisemitism. AIPAC bribes congress and the ADL censors the media. It is a one two punch to protect criminal Zionists interest. And now you know its criminal origins. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ryandawson.org/subscribe

Roman Abramovich was known as the "stealth oligarch" before he stepped into the limelight as Chelsea football club's sugar daddy owner. The man loves a yacht: his largest cost $427m, and has bullet-proof windows and an escape submarine. Abramovich made his fortune from post-Soviet privatisation, aided by a man known as the “Godfather of the Kremlin”, Boris Berezovsky, and close ties to Vladimir Putin in the early years of his presidency. But with recent reports of a suspected poisoning and sanctions against him in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war, Abramovich's luck might be changing. BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng track Abramovich's meteoric rise from being a hard-up orphan to making billions from oil and aluminium. Then they decide if they think he's good, bad, or just another billionaire.

Le 23 mars 2013, l'homme d'affaire russe Boris Berezovsky, opposant numéro 1 de Vladimir Poutine, est retrouvé mort dans sa maison près de Londres. Les enquêteurs découvrent autour de son cou un morceau d'écharpe accroché au montant de la douche. L'autopsie du corps révèle que l'oligarque est probablement mort par pendaison...Pour ses proches, il s'agirait d'un crime maquillé en suicide... Invités : Philippe Comte, Maître de conférences de langue et civilisation russes à la Sorbonne, et Vice-président de l'Association française des russisants (A.F.R.). Ecoutez L'heure du Crime avec Jean-Alphonse Richard.

"Russia has been an empire for so long, she doesn't know how to be a country." This line from Peter Morgan's new play, Patriots, captures the story of Russian kingmaker Boris Berezovsky and his mysterious death in England. On the day Putin was inaugurated for his fifth term, Andrea attended a performance of Patriots with a former colleague of Paul Klebnikov, the American journalist and author of Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism. Klebnikov was gunned down in Moscow in 2004, likely on Berezovsky's orders. In this chilling episode of Gaslit Nation, Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and European analyst Monique Camarra of the Kremlin File podcast join Andrea to discuss the latest leadership shake-up in Russia's disastrous invasion of Ukraine, the forces behind Vladimir Putin's rise to power, and the latest threats from Russia's mafia state, including against Olga and her fearless human rights work. Western leaders must wake-up and do more to protect those on the frontlines, fighting for our democracy, more than the institutions failing us.  The discussion with Kremlin File begins around the 18-minute mark and is exclusive to our subscribers at the Truth-teller tier and higher. In the opening segment, Andrea reads comments from Gaslit Nation subscribers at the Democracy Defender tier and higher on our recent coverage of Israel and Palestine. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! To join the conversation, submit questions to our regular Q&As, bonus shows, get all shows ad-free and invites to virtual events, and more, subscribe to Gaslit Nation at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit! 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Thrilling political drama. Collective Imagination. Playing Putin.  Patriots on Broadway is a political thriller written by Peter Morgan, writer of The Crown. You don't need to know much about politics to be wrapped up in this electric drama to understand what's happening in the world and on stage, especially with a little use of collective imagination. Lets dive into a little about what makes Will Keen's (Putin) process and approach to this play, which also happens to be his Broadway debut. Will Keen has just closed the West End transfer of Peter Morgan's Patriots, directed by Rupert Goold, for which he won the Olivier Award for Supporting Actor last year. He most recently wrapped “My Lady Jane” and the second series of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” both for Amazon, as well as indie feature Borderland opposite Felicity Jones and Mark Strong. He is currently on screens in “The Gold” (BBC1/Viacom), “Ridley Road” (BBC), and “The Pursuit of Love” (BBC) opposite Andrew Scott and Emily Beecham. His other TV credits include “His Dark Materials” seasons 1 and 2, “The Crown” seasons one and two, “Genius,” “Picasso,” “Wolf Hall” and “The Musketeers.” Stage credits include Ghosts, Waste (Almeida); Quartermaine's Terms (Wyndham's Theatre); The Arsonists (Royal Court); and Mary Stuart (National Theatre). In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russia belongs to its oligarchs—and no one is more powerful than billionaire Boris Berezovsky. When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. But soon Putin's ruthless rise threatens Berezovsky's reign, setting off a riveting, near-Shakespearean confrontation between the two powerful, fatally flawed men. Tony® and Emmy® Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg stars as Berezovsky and Will Keen reprises his Olivier Award-winning turn as Putin in PATRIOTS, a shockingly timely history play from Peter Morgan, creator of “The Crown.” Don't miss this strictly limited engagement of Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold's kinetic, exhilarating production, which reveals to us all how Russia's post-Soviet machinations continue to shape our world to this day. Patriots is playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre through June 23rd. https://patriotsbroadway.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny and Derek welcome to the podcast actor Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, Call Me By Your Name, “Boardwalk Empire”) to discuss his role in the new play Patriots on Broadway, which portrays billionaire Boris Berezovsky's (Stuhlbarg) relationship with Vladimir Putin (Will Keen) in 1991. The group discusses the challenges in nuanced portrayals of Berezovsky and Putin, how preparing for the character pushed Michael to reframe his perspective on the end of the USSR, the resonance between the events of the play and the current situation in the United States, notions of homeland and patriotism for Berezovsky, and more. Patriots is playing now on Broadway through June 23 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre at 243 West 47 Street. Buy your tickets here.*Producer's Note: The “Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone” documentary series that Michael referenced was created by Adam Curtis. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

On this episode of American Prestige, we welcome to the podcast, actor Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, Call Me By Your Name, Boardwalk Empire) to discuss his role in the new Broadway play, Patriots, which portrays billionaire Boris Berezovsky's (Stuhlbarg) relationship with Vladimir Putin (Will Keen) in 1991. The group discusses the challenges in nuanced portrayals of Berezovsky and Putin, how preparing for the character pushed Michael to reframe his perspective on the end of the USSR, the resonance between the events of the play and the current situation in the United States, notions of homeland and patriotism for Berezovsky, and more.Patriots is playing now on Broadway through June 23 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.The documentary series, Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone, that Michael referenced was created by Adam Curtis.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Turboamerica - Never more united, never more powerful than it is today. AIDS - https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-early-days-of-hivaids-introduction Anatoly Karlin's “Wokeness is the tribute that meritocracy pays to human dignity” as a replacement for noblesse oblige. What we can learn from the Ukraine war about current empire(s).“Fighting for a better past” in the Balkans. Why does Boris Berezovsky deserve infamy? Tucker/Putin Interview - a landmark event or non-event? Outlook for Ukraine and maybe, more interestingly, Poland, as US interest in the war wanes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aksubversive/message

Chillout Classic w Radiu Spin #32 "Stephan" Gościem programu jest Stephan Berger, meloman, pianista amator, kucharz i właściciel Hotelu Romantic Hotel w Rothenburg ob Der Tauber w Niemczech. 1. J.S.Bach - Aria z Wariacji Golbergowskich, Rosalyn Tureck. 2. Franz Schubert - Impromptu op.142, D.935 As-dur, Krystian Zimmerman. 3. F. Schubert - Kwintet Pstrąg, cz.1, Allegro vivace, Boris Berezovsky, soliści Opery Królewskiej Covent Garden. 4. Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet Es-dur, cz.1, Allegro brillante, Menahem Pressler, Emerson String Quartet. 5. L. van Beethoven - VI Symfonia cz.5, Wienner Philharmoniker, Karl Böme. 6. L. van Beethoven - Trio B-dur, op. 11 "Gassenhauer" na klarnet, wiolonczelę i fortepian, Peter Shmidl, Antony Spiri, Koh Iwasaki. 7. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love, 29/6/69 Top Gear.

Less than three years ago they were flying high and now they've been subjected to major setbacks. And, no, we're not talking about our intrepid duo. In the last week former President Donald Trump has been put under federal indictment, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been run out of Parliament and former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been placed under arrest.Rumors have circulated that this episode sees our hosts coming together in agreement over several major issues instead of the knock-down-drag-'em-out fight predicted over the weekend. You'll just have to listen in.In Culture Corner, both James and Toby take in Patriots at the Noel Coward, the latest play from Peter Morgan (The Crown, Frost/Nixon) that features Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky and Will Keen as Vladimir Putin. And - SPOILER ALERT - we wrap up Succession.Opening sound this week is Douglas Ross, Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament, commenting on Nicola Sturgeon's legal troubles.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5822211/advertisement

Patriots, Peter Morgan's play set in Russia in 1991, traces the rise and fall of Boris Berezovsky, who helped Vladimir Putin take power. As Patriots transfers to the West End, Allan Little – who as the BBC's Moscow correspondent met Berezovsky – talks to the director Rupert Goold and Will Keen, winner of an Olivier Award for his performance as Vladimir Putin. The V&A Photography Centre opens this week, the largest suite of galleries in the UK dedicated to a permanent photography collection. Allan is joined by curator Marta Weiss and AI deep fake photographer Jake Elwes. DJ Taylor won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography for his first telling of George Orwell's life. He reveals why, twenty years later, he's returned to the subject with the publication of Orwell: The New Life. Presenter: Allan Little Producer: Timothy Prosser

In the second part of this series we discuss Putin's first years in office, in particular the Moscow apartment bombings and the Moscow theater hostage crisis. Both events were blamed on Chechen militants despite overwhelming evidence of state involvement.This episode picks up in Putin's first term as president, which almost immediately was overshadowed by the Moscow apartment bombings, which were blamed on Chechen terrorists despite all signs pointing to the KGB / FSB. The FSB had recently acquired large quantities of hexogen, an explosive found at the scene. Composite sketches of a suspect were circulated by police and local press, and then erased from existence at the behest of the FSB when they decided upon a suspect: Chechen rebellion leader Achemez Gochiyaev. Please become a patron if you enjoy our content and want to support us, you'll get all of our public episodes ad-free. Key to investigating the FSB's links to these bombings were three people we have mentioned before, former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, former media oligarch Boris Berezovsky, and reporter Anna Politkovskaya, all of whom have since been murdered by Russian intelligence or mobsters since that time. If you want to read more on this subject, we recommend Blowing Up Russia by Litvinenok and Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky, as well as From Russia With Blood by Heidi Blake. 1, 2 Following the bombings, the Moscow theater crisis was another event in which the FSB was complicit in killing Russian civilians and blaming the carnage on Chechen militants. An entire theater was taken hostage leading to a multi-day seige from Russian police and military, after which the FSB gassed the theater, killing indiscriminately both hostage-takers and hostages alike. It seems that the lone "Chechen militant" escapee from the crisis, Khanpasha Terkibayev, was kicked out of dozens of local Chechen resistance organizations, because everyone in his home region suspected him of being an informant for the FSB. 1. Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky, Blowing Up Russia, Encounter Books, March 2007. ⇤2. Heidi Blake, From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West, Mulholland Books, November 2019. ⇤

Le 23 mars 2013, l'homme d'affaire russe Boris Berezovsky, opposant numéro 1 de Vladimir Poutine, est retrouvé mort dans sa maison près de Londres. Les enquêteurs découvrent autour de son cou un morceau d'écharpe accroché au montant de la douche. L'autopsie du corps révèle que l'oligarque est probablement mort par pendaison...Pour ses proches, il s'agirait d'un crime maquillé en suicide... Invités : Philippe Comte, Maître de conférences de langue et civilisation russes à la Sorbonne, et Vice-président de l'Association française des russisants (A.F.R.). Ecoutez L'heure du Crime avec Jean-Alphonse Richard.

Martin Armstrong discusses his new book based on declassified documents where in the 1990s the West, NATO, and Russian oligarchy plotted to seize Moscow, loot Russia, and takeover its natural resources. Yeltsin turned to Putin who was not a communist and is not an oligarch. The Moscow apartment bombings or propaganda surrounding them being a false flag would likely have come from Boris Berezovsky. The Great Reset is basically a debt default and the EU is a disaster that will fall apart. At this point most of the attack on Russia is related to "climate change" and to shut down fossil fuels. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / YouTube Geopolitics & Empire · Martin Armstrong: The Plot to Seize Russia & Make It a NATO Vassal #318 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Website Twitter https://twitter.com/StrongEconomics Website https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/blog About Martin Armstrong Armstrong is the developer of the Armstrong Economic Confidence Model, best known for calling the crash of 1987 to the very day. The model pegged June 13-June 14, 2011 as the start of a long-term upward trend in the market; the market obliged by notching its first weekly rise since April 29. Armstrong's work has become world renown. His model has successfully pinpointed not merely major specific days who events well in advance, but it has provided one of the most consistent guides for understanding the turning points in the global economy and thus the business cycle not merely within a domestic economy, but within the global economy on a collective basis. Not long afterward, he claims, the C.I.A. telephoned his firm, eager to get a closer look at his model. Agents had been watching him and were curious about how he had managed to call the collapse of the ruble. They asked if he would come to Washington, he said, and build his model for them. He declined. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

The new film Persuasion based on Jane Austen's novel starring Dakota Johnson and directed by Carrie Cracknell has already attracted a lot of attention for its blend of 21st century millennial dialogue and Austen's own words. And Peter Morgan, writer of The Crown, returns to the stage for his new play Patriots which looks at the rise of the oligarchs in Russia, in particular Boris Berezovsky, played by Tom Hollander, helping to secure the rise of Putin, played by Will Keen. Guardian foreign correspondent Luke Harding and film critic Hanna Flint join Shahidha to review both. Durham's International Brass festival, which has been going for more than 20 years, is showcasing bands from as far afield as Cuba, Italy and Ghana. Among this year's high profile artists taking part are Mercury Prize and Brit Award nominees, a MOBO-winning CBBC star, and an avant garde rock band fronted by the Poet Laureate. The BBC's Sharuna Sagar went to Durham to see how this traditional style of music is being embraced by new generation of musicians and collaborators. We hear who has been named Art Fund Museum of the Year, and speak to the winner just minutes after it is announced. Presenter: Shahidha Bari Producer: Sarah Johnson Photo credit: Nick Wall/Netflix © 2022

This episode of World of Drugs talks about suicide a great deal and utilizes journalism articles and opinions to discuss whether or not the suicides were authentic or carried out by covert forces in Russian politics under the direction of Vladimir Putin. This is not meant to diminish victims of suicide, families who have had a loved one commit suicide, or those who experience suicidal ideation in their daily lives. It is meant to demonstrate that learning about the issues with drug dealers, political leaders, and cartels across the world is important and something that should be paid attention to because it can reveal a plethora of problems that people are dealing with on a daily basis. – dr joe Synopsis: Today on World on Drugs I'll be talking with my guest about Vladimir Putin and how most Russian Oligarchs that have challenged him publicly or privately have died by murder suicide. Always an interesting choice of death when you're incredibly rich and don't have any problems besides the Russian government being uncomfortable with the amount of power you hold over a private industry. This episode of World on Drugs will show you that you don't fuck with Putin and that money protects no one when a government is run like a mafia without any consequences. GUEST Josh Potter Josh Potter is a stand-up comedian and podcaster. Born in Buffalo, NY, Josh got his start on morning radio. Now living in Los Angeles, CA he has not only changed the stigma about shoulder hair, he has also become a top rising comedian. After winning Helium Comedy Club's comedy competition, he has gone on to work with Colin Quinn, Joey Diaz and Tom Segura. You can see Josh regularly on Your Mom's House podcast with Tom Segura and Christina P. Sources https://thehill.com/opinion/3471876-vladimir-putin-the-liternoye-killer/ https://nypost.com/2022/05/04/suspicious-russian-oligarch-deaths-match-kremlin-playbook-sources/ https://fortune.com/2022/04/26/russian-oligarchs-deaths-strange-circumstances-this-year/ https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1086012 https://www.newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022 Spitznagel. (2013). The mysterious death of Boris Berezovsky: the Russian oligarch was found hanged in his home on March 23. Was it foul play? Bloomberg Businessweek (Online), 4324, 72– https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-conquered-russias-oligarchy https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2012/04/vladimir-putin-mikhail-khodorkovsky-russia?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20220325&utm_term=6483382&utm_campaign=money&utm_id=5204869&orgid=189&utm_att1=money https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-oil-tycoon-found-dead-reportedly-treated-with-toad-venom-2022-5

EP STARTS AROUND MIN 30* This episode of World of Drugs talks about suicide a great deal and utilizes journalism articles and opinions to discuss whether or not the suicides were authentic or carried out by covert forces in Russian politics under the direction of Vladimir Putin. This is not meant to diminish victims of suicide, families who have had a loved one commit suicide, or those who experience suicidal ideation in their daily lives. It is meant to demonstrate that learning about the issues with drug dealers, political leaders, and cartels across the world is important and something that should be paid attention to because it can reveal a plethora of problems that people are dealing with on a daily basis. – dr joe Synopsis: Today on World on Drugs I'll be talking with my guest about Vladimir Putin and how most Russian Oligarchs that have challenged him publicly or privately have died by murder suicide. Always an interesting choice of death when you're incredibly rich and don't have any problems besides the Russian government being uncomfortable with the amount of power you hold over a private industry. This episode of World on Drugs will show you that you don't fuck with Putin and that money protects no one when a government is run like a mafia without any consequences. GUEST Josh Potter Josh Potter is a stand-up comedian and podcaster. Born in Buffalo, NY, Josh got his start on morning radio. Now living in Los Angeles, CA he has not only changed the stigma about shoulder hair, he has also become a top rising comedian. After winning Helium Comedy Club's comedy competition, he has gone on to work with Colin Quinn, Joey Diaz and Tom Segura. You can see Josh regularly on Your Mom's House podcast with Tom Segura and Christina P. Sources https://thehill.com/opinion/3471876-vladimir-putin-the-liternoye-killer/ https://nypost.com/2022/05/04/suspicious-russian-oligarch-deaths-match-kremlin-playbook-sources/ https://fortune.com/2022/04/26/russian-oligarchs-deaths-strange-circumstances-this-year/ https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1086012 https://www.newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022 Spitznagel. (2013). The mysterious death of Boris Berezovsky: the Russian oligarch was found hanged in his home on March 23. Was it foul play? Bloomberg Businessweek (Online), 4324, 72– https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-conquered-russias-oligarchy https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2012/04/vladimir-putin-mikhail-khodorkovsky-russia?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20220325&utm_term=6483382&utm_campaign=money&utm_id=5204869&orgid=189&utm_att1=money https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-oil-tycoon-found-dead-reportedly-treated-with-toad-venom-2022-5

Berättelsen om hur en föräldralös pojke gick från att sälja leksaksdockor på marknaden till att bli en av världens rikaste män. Roman Abramovitj växer upp i 70-talets Sibirien. Lagom till att han blir vuxen kollapsar Sovjetunionen. I den stunden förändras precis allt.Inspirerad av den nya, ryska entreprenörsandan sniffar Roman upp affärsmöjligheter både till höger och vänster. Tillsammans med sin mentor Boris Berezovsky köper han upp det statliga oljebolaget Sibneft och finner sig snart på förnamnsbasis med hela den politiska eliten.När Roman Abramovitj köper den engelska fotbollsklubben Chelsea vid 36-års ålder är han en av världens rikaste män. Samtidigt väcks det nu frågor om hans kopplingar till Kreml. Det är frågor som kommer att bubbla upp till ytan igen, drygt 20 år senare, när Romans gamle vän Vladimir Putin ger order om att invadera Ukraina.I avsnittet medverkar SVT:s utrikesreporter Carl Fridh Kleberg, Sportexpressens Therese Strömberg och Ekots ekonomikommentator Kristian Åström.Avsnittet gjordes av Studio Olga våren 2022. Programledare: Vendela Lundberg Avsnittsmakare och reporter: Hateff Mousaviyan Ljudmix: Fredrik NilssonKlippen är hämtade från BT Sport, BBC, SVT, beIN Sports, Sky Sports, Al Jazeera, The Guardian och Sveriges Radio.Boken "Abramovich: The Billionaire from Nowhere" av Dominic Midgley och Chris Hutchins var till extra stor hjälp under researcharbetet.

Berättelsen om hur en föräldralös pojke gick från att sälja leksaksdockor på marknaden till att bli en av världens rikaste män. Roman Abramovitj växer upp i 70-talets Sibirien. Lagom till att han blir vuxen kollapsar Sovjetunionen. I den stunden förändras precis allt.Inspirerad av den nya, ryska entreprenörsandan sniffar Roman upp affärsmöjligheter både till höger och vänster. Tillsammans med sin mentor Boris Berezovsky köper han upp det statliga oljebolaget Sibneft och finner sig snart på förnamnsbasis med hela den politiska eliten.När Roman Abramovitj köper den engelska fotbollsklubben Chelsea vid 36-års ålder är han en av världens rikaste män. Samtidigt väcks det nu frågor om hans kopplingar till Kreml. Det är frågor som kommer att bubbla upp till ytan igen, drygt 20 år senare, när Romans gamle vän Vladimir Putin ger order om att invadera Ukraina.I avsnittet medverkar SVT:s utrikesreporter Carl Fridh Kleberg, Sportexpressens Therese Strömberg och Ekots ekonomikommentator Kristian Åström.Avsnittet gjordes av Studio Olga våren 2022. Programledare: Vendela Lundberg Avsnittsmakare och reporter: Hateff Mousaviyan Ljudmix: Fredrik NilssonKlippen är hämtade från BT Sport, BBC, SVT, beIN Sports, Sky Sports, Al Jazeera, The Guardian och Sveriges Radio.Boken "Abramovich: The Billionaire from Nowhere" av Dominic Midgley och Chris Hutchins var till extra stor hjälp under researcharbetet.

How Vladimir Putin acquires his luxuries, and how they're hidden from the world.Officially, Vladimir Putin is not a rich man. On paper, he owns the following: an 800 square foot apartment, a trailer, two cars and a modest salary of $140,000 a year. In reality, he is one of the richest men on Earth. If you like our content, become a patron to get our exclusive premium episodes, plus our public episodes ad-free. After the intro, Sandra has a few things to say to Justice Samuel Alito regarding the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion about overturning Roe vs Wade. Then we move into Putin's wealth: he also has yachts, mansions, gold toilets and expensive watches. 1 There's also the palace on the Black Sea coast that is still under construction, revealed to the world in drone footage by Alexei Navalny before his imprisonment. It features a hockey rink, a vineyard on the grounds of the adjacent property, its own border checkpoint, its own self-enforced no-fly zone, a casino, and of course a hookah bar with a stripper pole and an ancient Greek Orthodox church moved to the site brick by brick. FSB are the title holders. 2 Western billionaires use the same methods as oligarchs to hide their wealth from taxation. We discuss a couple of good examples, for instance the case of Suleiman Kerimov, who owned several Russian banks and also the country's largest gold mining company, Polyus Gold. Kerimov's wealth was hidden behind a Swiss accountant who even used his town's local tattoo artist to send wire transfers between shell companies, to the tune of about $700 million dollars. Most of Suleiman's wealth came from his investment in Gazprom, a Russian gas company, to the tune of about $21 billion. 3 There's also the case of a few Harvard economics professors who tried to rip off the Russian banking system by taking over the clearing bank for the entire Russian economy with a $400,000 dollar loan from a dentist uncle in Idaho.  It all ended in hurt feelings, fraud charges, and tears. But they did gain money in the end by investing in Gazprom. 4. We also discuss some of Sandra's personal stories about Lada cars, Boris Berezovsky, loans for shares during Yeltsin's admin, and the scam auctions which set all of this in motion from her home country of Romania back when the Soviet party fell apart and Nancy Pelosi's historic visit to Kyiv, meeting Volodymyr Zelensky. Also included: Kursk, Ozero dachas, Yeltsin, Roman Abramovich, novichok, Scarface, gold toilets, Trump, KGB, Alina Kabayeva, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, Luiza Rozova, Sergei Roldugin, Boris Rotenberg, Svetlana Krivonogikh, Timchenko, Kolbin, Kovalchuk, Panama & Pandora Papers, Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. 1. Mike McIntire. Why Tracking Putin's Wealth Is So Difficult. The New York Times. April 2022. ⇤2. Inside 'Putin's Palace'. Radio Free Europe. January 2021. ⇤3. James Oliver, Nassos Stylianou and Steve Swann. Hidden Wealth of One of Putin's 'Inner Circle' Revealed. BBC. April 2022. ⇤4. David McClintick. How Harvard Lost Russia. Institutional Investor. January 2006. ⇤

Vladimir Putin's health is declining.There is credible intelligence suggesting that he has a “significant” illness. “Putin appears to have some neuro/physiological health issues.” There is chatter of cancer and/or Parkinson's disease and steroid use, videos of Putin show a rigid right arm and visible limping. If you like our content, please subscribe to our premium episodes. We discuss the possibility that he may be dying, and that the Ukraine invasion may be a legacy action that he is trying to complete before his own demise due to medical issues. Putin has a very carefully constructed public image which includes prepared videos and images of him performing physically demanding tasks such as Judo fighting, riding horses, and flying gliders. But these "strong-man" images and videos have declined in number in the past couple of years and in some cases, even have been altered with things such as a photoshopped image of a bear. 1, 2 Russian TV even had to cut a portion of a live appearance, presumably due to some medical issue Putin suffered on stage in front of a crowd, and then re-start the broadcast after he had been attended to and returned to the microphone. 3 We also analyze Ukraine's air force status. The war is slipping through Putin's fingers due to his own mismanagement of the ground assault, and so is the number of aircraft in service in the Ukranian air force. As of our recording they're down to 55 fighter jets - MiG-29s are not known for reliability. 4 We finish by assessing who Putin's successors may be if he dies of natural causes or simply doesn't manage to hold on to control of the country if the Ukraine invasion fails. Anatoly Chubais resigned and fled to Turkey. Yuri Kovalchuk and Alexander Bortnikov may also fall out of favor if Ukraine falls from Putin's grasp - like Mikhail Khodorkovsky who got imprisoned by Putin for 10 years. He says Putin will be "gone in 3 years." Boris Berezovsky is obviously out of the running, Putin had him killed. 5 1. @Russia Twitter account, Putin With Photoshopped Bear, Twitter, October 2021. ⇤2. @PutinsKillList Twitter account, Putin and the Microphone, Twitter, March 2022. ⇤3. By Nataliya Vasilyeva, In a £10,500 Italian Designer Coat, a Limping Vladimir Putin Tries to Rally his People, Telegraph, March 2022. ⇤4. Maria Varenikova and Andrew Kramer, How Ukraine's Outgunned Air Force Is Fighting Back Against Russian Jets, New York Times, March 2022. ⇤5. Roman Petrenko, Who Will Replace Putin? Pravda, March 2022. ⇤

On February 24th the world watched in horror as the Russian military started its invasion of Ukraine.In this episode we are discussing all the things that led to Putin's war on Ukraine, the west's lax attitude and response, and Ukraine's fight for freedom and acceptance in the EU over the past three decades. Latest developments at the time of recording are of course discussed as well. If you enjoy our episodes, please subscribe. Historical and geopolitical context is key to understanding the current tragedy unfolding under our eyes. We start off with The Budapest Memorandum of 1994 when, after the fall of the USSR, Ukraine was assured by the US, UK and Russia that its territorial sovereignty would be protected as long as they gave up their nuclear warheads. 1 Next we discuss The Orange Revolution of 2004, when the Ukrainian people organized nationwide protests in support of fair elections after Russian tampering, and the poisoning of candidate Viktor Yushchenko by Russian intelligence. He almost died and remained disfigured. We also discuss how the protest movements of this time in led to similar uprisings in support of elections in other countries in the region such as Moldova and Belarus, and how all of this led to similar protests within Russia itself in 2011, and Putin's personal feud with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 2 Then we discuss the Revolution of Dignity following the elections of 2010, in which the Russian-favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, was elected to the presidency of Ukraine, leading to another round of protests and a violent response from the state police and military. We also go over the subsequent Russian annexation of Crimea, and failure (again) of western countries and NATO to live up to their assurances made in the 1994 agreement that saw Ukraine stripped of nuclear weapons. 3 In addition to all of this we discuss the specifics of no-fly zones and how Russia has evaded them in the past, for example during the recent Syrian conflict. Also the firings of Ukranian officials at the behest of US presidents, such as the "Trump phone call" from 2019 to current Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky, and the overlap between GOP and Ukranian right-wing campaign advisors, Paul Manafort for example. We also discuss the persecution of Russian dissidents Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya who were all killed by Russian intelligence agents while living in London. 4 This is a multi-part series, in the next episode we'll discuss the devastation from the invasion in Mariupol, Kharkhiv, Kherson. Irpin, Kyiv and other Ukranian cities, and the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 17 incident. 1. Memorandum on security assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, December 1994. ⇤2. Ukraine's Ex-president on Being Poisoned, BBC, April 2018. ⇤3. Revolution of Dignity, Maidan Museum. ⇤4. David Cenciotti, Syrian Mig-29 Fulcrums Escorted the 28 Russian Jets... Hiding Under Cargo Planes, The Aviationist, September 2015. ⇤

Policy Exchange is hosting a series of podcasts on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its broader consequences.  In this episode Michael Mosbacher asks Rt Hon Amber Rudd – Home Secretary from 2016 - 2018 – about how the UK responded to the 2018 Skripral poisonings in Salisbury, whether more could have been done then, what should be done now and how Britain should respond now to Ukraine's refugee crisis. Rudd is supportive of our sanctions against Russia and thinks they should be tougher - but also argues that they are unlikely to be effective as Putin, just like Iran, is unlikely to be responsive to the effect of sanctions. Some of the questions answered by Rt Hon Amber Rudd : • When did you learn about the Skripal poisoning? Did the news come as a shock or were we expecting that something like this might happen? • Did the Government do enough to respond to Russia's aggression in the aftermath of the Skripal poisoning? • After the Litvinenko & Skripal poisonings, how concerned should we be about further Russian attacks on British soil? • With your experience of Russia's actions, could the West have been better prepared for Russia's invasion? Did we sleepwalk into disaster? • There have been a series of deaths on British soil of opponents of Putin, eg Boris Berezovsky. In light of what we now know should these cases be reopened? • Has Brexit meant that there is less intelligence cooperation with other European countries? If there had been more such cooperation would we have been better prepared? • Russia has been seen as an ally in the War on Terror. Was this a mistake? 

Alors que l'invasion russe fait rage en Ukraine, les Occidentaux allongent leurs listes noires des dirigeants et oligarques russes. Parmi eux, Roman Abramovitch, proche de Poutine et propriétaire de Chelsea, le club de football londonien dont la vente a été suspendue. Qui est cet oligarque très discret, dont la fortune est estimée à 13 milliards de dollars, et qui n'accorde jamais d'interviews ? Yeux bleus, sourire timide, Roman Abramovitch est toujours tiré à quatre épingles. À son poignet, une montre Polar grand public qui mesure la fréquence cardiaque mais, lui, ne se déplace qu'à bord de son Boeing 737 ou en hélicoptère. Ne vous fiez pas à son allure affable, c'est un négociateur redoutable. Une revanche sur l'histoire familiale Son énergie et sa force de caractère lui viennent de son enfance. Né il y a 55 ans à Saratov, dans l'ouest de l'Union soviétique de l'époque, Roman perd très tôt sa mère, Irina, professeure de musique, puis son père. Membre du Conseil économique de la République autonome des Komi, Arkady est tué dans un accident de chantier. Roman, d'origine juive ukrainienne, est élevé par son oncle, l'ancien enfant du Goulag devenu son modèle. Antoine Bourlon, journaliste à L'Équipe et auteur d'un documentaire consacré à la vie de l'oligarque, raconte : « Il s'agit de son oncle paternel qui a grandi dans le Goulag et qui a quand même réussi sa vie. Pour Romand Abramovitch, c'est un super exemple. Dès qu'il a arrêté ses études, il a commencé à faire du troc, à faire des petites affaires. Il a rapidement senti le coup venir en montant sa première coopérative. Il fabriquait les jouets en plastique. À l'époque, il a cette coopérative, sa formation n'est pas celle des grandes écoles soviétiques… Il se retrouve à faire de la logistique pour du transport d'essence, de matières premières, et finit un jour en garde à vue. On l'accuse d'avoir détourné un train d'essence d'un montant de plusieurs millions de roubles. Puis, il sort de la garde à vue, l'argent revient un peu comme par magie. C'est le grand mystère de sa vie, parce que ça va tout enclencher. » Son premier milliard La rencontre avec Boris Berezovsky constitue un grand tournant. L'oligarque influent, qui contrôle plusieurs grands médias russes, lui ouvre son carnet d'adresses. Les deux hommes profitent de la privatisation de fleurons nationaux sous la présidence Eltsine. Et quand l'État cède ses parts dans un groupe pétrolier Sibneft, Abramovitch se porte acquéreur. Plus tard, il investit dans l'aluminium aux côtés d'un autre oligarque, Oleg Deripaska, et contribue à financer la campagne présidentielle de Vladimir Poutine. Mais quand celui-ci reprend en main l'oligarchie russe, Abramovitch, prudent, fait profil bas, note Lukas Aubin, chercheur associé à l'Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (Iris), spécialiste de la géopolitique de la Russie et du sport, auteur du livre La Sportokratura sous Vladimir Poutine, une géopolitique du sport russe : « Un pacte est mis en place en 2000 par le président russe qui dit aux oligarques : si vous participez aux grands travaux pour redresser la Russie, si vous ne vous engagez pas en politique contre moi, alors vous êtes libres de faire des affaires, et vous n'allez pas être inquiétés par la justice. Certains oligarques n'ont pas accepté ce pacte. Il y a eu l'affaire Khodorkovski en 2003. Première fortune de Russie, Mikhaïl Khodorkovski [puissant patron du groupe pétrolier Ioukos, NDLR] décide de faire des affaires avec les Américains et de se lancer en politique contre Vladimir Poutine. Résultat : il est traîné devant la justice russe et condamné à dix ans d'emprisonnement. Il sera libéré en 2013 », tandis que son groupe s'en trouvera dépecé. Abramovitch, lui, répond à l'injonction du président qui appelle à redresser le sport russe. « Il a construit une centaine de terrains de football à travers toute la Russie, notamment en Oural. C'était le fameux plan de Poutine. Et à partir des années 2010, on a vu l'oligarque s'éloigner petit à petit de sa Russie natale », observe le chercheur. Liberté en affaires Gouverneur du district autonome de Tchoukotka de 2000 à 2008, Abramovitch n'a pourtant pas d'ambitions politiques. Et le Kremlin apprécie. Alors que d'autres oligarques sont contraints à brader leurs actifs, Gazprom lui rachète ses parts du pétrolier Sibneft à prix d'or. En devenant propriétaire de Chelsea en 2003, le Russe lance un mouvement, celui des rachats des clubs de foot par des milliardaires ou des fonds souverains. L'empire Abramovitch prend pied à Londres. Pour Lukas Aubin, ce milliardaire « est un caméléon qui a fait fortune comme la plupart des oligarques russes dans les années 1990, qui a été opportuniste et qui a réussi à jouer à la fois de sa patte économique, mais aussi de sa patte politique. Il s'est adapté au moment où Vladimir Poutine est arrivé, et il a réussi à jouer sur plusieurs tableaux en même temps pour pouvoir continuer à être aussi libre qu'il avait envie de l'être ». Une liberté d'action que les nouvelles sanctions de Londres risquent d'entraver. Depuis plusieurs années, le milliardaire russe était dans le viseur de l'opposant Alexeï Navalny, faisant partie de sa liste des 35 oligarques proches de Poutine. Détenteur de passeports russe, israélien et portugais, il a fait du mécénat tous azimuts, des œuvres de charité aux hôpitaux en passant par la culture. Vente de Chelsea suspendue À Londres, une page se tourne pour le club de Chelsea, note Antoine Bourlon : « La vente de Chelsea remonte, en fait, à quelques années. En 2018, l'ancien agent Sergueï Skripal est empoisonné en Angleterre, probablement par les agents russes. Ça déclenche tout une vague d'incidents diplomatiques. Roman Abramovitch, lui, a son visa qui doit être renouvelé. Et on lui fait comprendre que potentiellement ça pourrait être refusé. Il est un peu lassé de certaines choses. Il pense déjà à vendre son club de football. Le club était coté à plus de 3 milliards d'euros. C'est un montant astronomique. Des gens se montrent intéressés, mais ça ne va pas plus loin. Il y a très peu de monde qui puisse acheter Chelsea à ce prix-là. » L'ambiance n'est plus à la fête pour le milliardaire. Roman Abramovitch a fait savoir que l'argent de la vente de son club de foot irait à « toutes les victimes de la guerre en Ukraine », quelles que soient leurs origines. Une formulation floue, comme à son habitude. En attendant, la vente de Chelsea a été suspendue. Cette fois, la terre brûle sous les pieds du milliardaire. Le gouvernement britannique l'a ajouté à sa liste noire de personnalités visées par les sanctions. Y figurent des oligarques et des kleptocrates qui, à cause de « leurs liens étroits avec Poutine, sont complices de son agression » à l'égard de l'Ukraine, lit-on dans le communiqué de la ministre britannique des Affaires étrangères, Liz Truss. Ils vont en principe subir un gel de leurs avoirs et une interdiction de voyager. Outre Abramovitch, sont notamment ciblés : le PDG de Bank Rossiya, Dmitri Lebedev, l'ancien partenaire commercial d'Abramovitch et le fondateur du géant de l'aluminium Rusal, Oleg Deripaska, ainsi que le directeur général du géant pétrolier russe Rosneft, Igor Setchine. Une nouvelle vague de mesures à laquelle le gouvernement de Boris Johnson s'est enfin résolu. Le jour précédent l'annonce des sanctions, Roman Abramovitch a réussi à sortir son super yacht Solaris d'un chantier naval espagnol. Juste à temps. ► Pour aller plus loin : Antoine Bourlon, Roman Abramovitch - L'odyssée d'un oligarque : https://www.lequipe.fr/explore/wf49-roman-abramovitch/ Lukas Aubin, La Sportokratura sous Vladimir Putin, une géopolitique du sport russe, Ed. Bréals 2021

Alors que l'invasion russe fait rage en Ukraine, les Occidentaux allongent leurs listes noires des dirigeants et oligarques russes. Parmi eux, Roman Abramovitch, proche de Poutine et propriétaire de Chelsea, le club de football londonien dont la vente a été suspendue. Qui est cet oligarque très discret, dont la fortune est estimée à 13 milliards de dollars, et qui n'accorde jamais d'interviews ? Yeux bleus, sourire timide, Roman Abramovitch est toujours tiré à quatre épingles. À son poignet, une montre Polar grand public qui mesure la fréquence cardiaque mais, lui, ne se déplace qu'à bord de son Boeing 737 ou en hélicoptère. Ne vous fiez pas à son allure affable, c'est un négociateur redoutable. Une revanche sur l'histoire familiale Son énergie et sa force de caractère lui viennent de son enfance. Né il y a 55 ans à Saratov, dans l'ouest de l'Union soviétique de l'époque, Roman perd très tôt sa mère, Irina, professeure de musique, puis son père. Membre du Conseil économique de la République autonome des Komi, Arkady est tué dans un accident de chantier. Roman, d'origine juive ukrainienne, est élevé par son oncle, l'ancien enfant du Goulag devenu son modèle. Antoine Bourlon, journaliste à L'Équipe et auteur d'un documentaire consacré à la vie de l'oligarque, raconte : « Il s'agit de son oncle paternel qui a grandi dans le Goulag et qui a quand même réussi sa vie. Pour Romand Abramovitch, c'est un super exemple. Dès qu'il a arrêté ses études, il a commencé à faire du troc, à faire des petites affaires. Il a rapidement senti le coup venir en montant sa première coopérative. Il fabriquait les jouets en plastique. À l'époque, il a cette coopérative, sa formation n'est pas celle des grandes écoles soviétiques… Il se retrouve à faire de la logistique pour du transport d'essence, de matières premières, et finit un jour en garde à vue. On l'accuse d'avoir détourné un train d'essence d'un montant de plusieurs millions de roubles. Puis, il sort de la garde à vue, l'argent revient un peu comme par magie. C'est le grand mystère de sa vie, parce que ça va tout enclencher. » Son premier milliard La rencontre avec Boris Berezovsky constitue un grand tournant. L'oligarque influent, qui contrôle plusieurs grands médias russes, lui ouvre son carnet d'adresses. Les deux hommes profitent de la privatisation de fleurons nationaux sous la présidence Eltsine. Et quand l'État cède ses parts dans un groupe pétrolier Sibneft, Abramovitch se porte acquéreur. Plus tard, il investit dans l'aluminium aux côtés d'un autre oligarque, Oleg Deripaska, et contribue à financer la campagne présidentielle de Vladimir Poutine. Mais quand celui-ci reprend en main l'oligarchie russe, Abramovitch, prudent, fait profil bas, note Lukas Aubin, chercheur associé à l'Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (Iris), spécialiste de la géopolitique de la Russie et du sport, auteur du livre La Sportokratura sous Vladimir Poutine, une géopolitique du sport russe : « Un pacte est mis en place en 2000 par le président russe qui dit aux oligarques : si vous participez aux grands travaux pour redresser la Russie, si vous ne vous engagez pas en politique contre moi, alors vous êtes libres de faire des affaires, et vous n'allez pas être inquiétés par la justice. Certains oligarques n'ont pas accepté ce pacte. Il y a eu l'affaire Khodorkovski en 2003. Première fortune de Russie, Mikhaïl Khodorkovski [puissant patron du groupe pétrolier Ioukos, NDLR] décide de faire des affaires avec les Américains et de se lancer en politique contre Vladimir Poutine. Résultat : il est traîné devant la justice russe et condamné à dix ans d'emprisonnement. Il sera libéré en 2013 », tandis que son groupe s'en trouvera dépecé. Abramovitch, lui, répond à l'injonction du président qui appelle à redresser le sport russe. « Il a construit une centaine de terrains de football à travers toute la Russie, notamment en Oural. C'était le fameux plan de Poutine. Et à partir des années 2010, on a vu l'oligarque s'éloigner petit à petit de sa Russie natale », observe le chercheur. Liberté en affaires Gouverneur du district autonome de Tchoukotka de 2000 à 2008, Abramovitch n'a pourtant pas d'ambitions politiques. Et le Kremlin apprécie. Alors que d'autres oligarques sont contraints à brader leurs actifs, Gazprom lui rachète ses parts du pétrolier Sibneft à prix d'or. En devenant propriétaire de Chelsea en 2003, le Russe lance un mouvement, celui des rachats des clubs de foot par des milliardaires ou des fonds souverains. L'empire Abramovitch prend pied à Londres. Pour Lukas Aubin, ce milliardaire « est un caméléon qui a fait fortune comme la plupart des oligarques russes dans les années 1990, qui a été opportuniste et qui a réussi à jouer à la fois de sa patte économique, mais aussi de sa patte politique. Il s'est adapté au moment où Vladimir Poutine est arrivé, et il a réussi à jouer sur plusieurs tableaux en même temps pour pouvoir continuer à être aussi libre qu'il avait envie de l'être ». Une liberté d'action que les nouvelles sanctions de Londres risquent d'entraver. Depuis plusieurs années, le milliardaire russe était dans le viseur de l'opposant Alexeï Navalny, faisant partie de sa liste des 35 oligarques proches de Poutine. Détenteur de passeports russe, israélien et portugais, il a fait du mécénat tous azimuts, des œuvres de charité aux hôpitaux en passant par la culture. Vente de Chelsea suspendue À Londres, une page se tourne pour le club de Chelsea, note Antoine Bourlon : « La vente de Chelsea remonte, en fait, à quelques années. En 2018, l'ancien agent Sergueï Skripal est empoisonné en Angleterre, probablement par les agents russes. Ça déclenche tout une vague d'incidents diplomatiques. Roman Abramovitch, lui, a son visa qui doit être renouvelé. Et on lui fait comprendre que potentiellement ça pourrait être refusé. Il est un peu lassé de certaines choses. Il pense déjà à vendre son club de football. Le club était coté à plus de 3 milliards d'euros. C'est un montant astronomique. Des gens se montrent intéressés, mais ça ne va pas plus loin. Il y a très peu de monde qui puisse acheter Chelsea à ce prix-là. » L'ambiance n'est plus à la fête pour le milliardaire. Roman Abramovitch a fait savoir que l'argent de la vente de son club de foot irait à « toutes les victimes de la guerre en Ukraine », quelles que soient leurs origines. Une formulation floue, comme à son habitude. En attendant, la vente de Chelsea a été suspendue. Cette fois, la terre brûle sous les pieds du milliardaire. Le gouvernement britannique l'a ajouté à sa liste noire de personnalités visées par les sanctions. Y figurent des oligarques et des kleptocrates qui, à cause de « leurs liens étroits avec Poutine, sont complices de son agression » à l'égard de l'Ukraine, lit-on dans le communiqué de la ministre britannique des Affaires étrangères, Liz Truss. Ils vont en principe subir un gel de leurs avoirs et une interdiction de voyager. Outre Abramovitch, sont notamment ciblés : le PDG de Bank Rossiya, Dmitri Lebedev, l'ancien partenaire commercial d'Abramovitch et le fondateur du géant de l'aluminium Rusal, Oleg Deripaska, ainsi que le directeur général du géant pétrolier russe Rosneft, Igor Setchine. Une nouvelle vague de mesures à laquelle le gouvernement de Boris Johnson s'est enfin résolu. Le jour précédent l'annonce des sanctions, Roman Abramovitch a réussi à sortir son super yacht Solaris d'un chantier naval espagnol. Juste à temps. ► Pour aller plus loin : Antoine Bourlon, Roman Abramovitch - L'odyssée d'un oligarque : https://www.lequipe.fr/explore/wf49-roman-abramovitch/ Lukas Aubin, La Sportokratura sous Vladimir Putin, une géopolitique du sport russe, Ed. Bréals 2021

Le 23 mars 2013, l'homme d'affaire russe Boris Berezovsky, opposant numéro 1 de Vladimir Poutine, est retrouvé mort dans sa maison près de Londres. Les enquêteurs découvrent autour de son cou un morceau d'écharpe accroché au montant de la douche. L'autopsie du corps révèle que l'oligarque est probablement mort par pendaison...Pour ses proches, il s'agirait d'un crime maquillé en suicide... Invités : Philippe Comte, Maître de conférences de langue et civilisation russes à la Sorbonne, et Vice-président de l'Association française des russisants (A.F.R.). Ecoutez L'heure du Crime avec Jean-Alphonse Richard du 09 mars 2022

Le samedi 23 mars 2013, peu après 14h30, Avi Navama, le garde du corps attitré de Boris Berezovsky, termine son jogging dans les allées qui cernent Titness Park. Il vit dans une grosse bâtisse, accolée à un étang et posée dans la campagne d'Ascot, à une quarantaine de kilomètres de Londres. Navama est au service de l'oligarque russe depuis maintenant six ans. Mais en rentrant, il fait le tour des pièces. Aucune présence de Berezovsky jusqu'à la salle de bains qui est verrouillée. Navama enfonce la porte et tombe alors sur le corps de son patron, allongé sur le dos et apparemment sans vie.

We're halfway through Spy December and we've got another case full of international intrigue this week. In this episode we're looking at one of the most famous spy stories that isn't actually about a spy. Join us as we look at the life and death of Alexander Litvinenko, the man who helped solve his own murder. FURTHER READING: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko (Alexander Litvinenko) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko (Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/27/russia.nickpatonwalsh (A spy out in the cold | Russia) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33678717 (Litvinenko: A deadly trail of polonium) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19647226 (Alexander Litvinenko: Profile of murdered Russian spy) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/alexander-litvinenko-the-man-who-solved-his-own-murder (Alexander Litvinenko: the man who solved his own murder | Luke Harding) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/alexander-litvinenko-and-the-most-radioactive-towel-in-history (Alexander Litvinenko and the most radioactive towel in history) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/russia-could-sue-uk-government-over-litvinenko-report-claiming-putin-probably-knew-about-murder-of-spy-a6834281.html (Russia could sue the UK government over the murder of Litvinenko) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Putin/Silencing-critics-and-actions-in-the-West#ref1252095 (Vladimir Putin - Silencing critics and actions in the West) https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/poison-in-the-system?utm_term=.qj09P41jm#.bx0arEWRk (Buzzfeed Investigation. Part One. Revealed: Explosive Evidence Of A Russian Assassination On British Soil That The Government Doesn't Want You To Read) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Up_Russia (Blowing Up Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubyanka_Criminal_Group (Lubyanka Criminal Group) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman) (Boris Berezovsky (businessman)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldfarb_(biologist) (Alexander Goldfarb (biologist)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Felshtinsky (Yuri Felshtinsky) ----------------------------------------------- https://square-mile-of-murder.captivate.fm/listen (Like the show? Give us a rating and review!) Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/squaremileofmurder (Patreon) Check out our merch store: https://squaremileofmurder.store/ (Square Mile of Murder Merch) Get our newsletter: https://squaremileofmurder.com/newsletter (Newsletter) Send us an email: info@squaremileofmurder.com Follow us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/pg/squaremilepod/ (Facebook) https://www.instagram.com/squaremileofmurder/ (Instagram) https://twitter.com/squaremilepod (Twitter) https://squaremileofmurder.com/ (Squaremileofmurder.com) Music provided by https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary?feature=blog (YouTube Audio Library) and https://artlist.io/Taylor-2050697 (Artlist.io) Support this podcast

This week we are diving into the assassination of Russian Alexander Litvinenko. One of President Putin's biggest critics and threats. Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security service who escaped prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom. In his books, Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within and Lubyanka Criminal Group, Litvinenko described Russian president Vladimir Putin's rise to power as a coup d'état organized by the FSB.    He alleged that a key element of the FSB's strategy was to frighten Russians by bombing apartment buildings in Moscow and other Russian cities. He accused Russian secret services of having arranged the Moscow theater hostage crisis, through their Chechen agent provocateur, and having organised the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting. He also claimed that the terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri was under FSB control when he visited Russia in 1997. Upon his arrival in London, he continued to support the Russian oligarch in exile, Boris Berezovsky, in his media campaign against the Russian government. Just two weeks before his death, Litvinenko accused Putin of ordering the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya. SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.huntakiller.com - Promo Code TCNS for 20% off your first box DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST PLATFORMS. Follow Us on Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/truecrimens IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcast If you like our content, consider becoming a financial supporter: Buy Us A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/tcns Become a Patron: https://patreon.com/truecrimeneversleeps

Not only just a review of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition, but also a wider examination of the issues brought up by competition in music, the role of music in communities, interviews with some of my favourite competitors including the winner Alim Beisembayev, audio clips from the unofficially linked Leeds Pub Piano Competition event, discussion with the competitors about how they deal with the nerves and pressures of competitions, and much more! Notes: Thank you to the pianists who gave me their valuable time for interviews: Alim Beisembayev Ariel Lanyi Yuzhang Li Elizaveta Kliuchereva Priscilla Navarro Thanks to creative producers Dave Cartwright & Sam Berrill for giving me their valuable time for the interview after the competition, and thanks to Clare Teal for the interview in the interval of the Leeds Pub Piano Competition Thanks and apologies if I interviewed you and there wasn't room in this podcast episode to include it- and I will try to upload the full interviews with the pianists in the coming weeks Thank you to the competition organisers and staff for their generosity, time and help! Intro-outro music for this episode is Alim Beisembayev playing Beethoven Sonata  Op .111 in the second round Links: The website of the Leeds International Piano Competition: https://www.leedspiano.com/ Medici TV's webpage for their coverage of all the events from The Leeds where you can catch up with all the performances: https://leedspiano.medici.tv/en/ Medici's YouTube channel where you can also watch all the performances and coverage: https://www.youtube.com/user/medicitv Transcript: Here's the script I wrote myself to read from which I mostly managed to keep to, although I did go a bit 'off script' at times! Hello and welcome to the heart of the piano podcast where we are exploring the world of piano. In this episode, I'll be bringing you my experience of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition, known informally as ‘The Leeds', and exploring some of the wider issues that competition in music brings up. Some of my favourite pianists have been finalists of The Leeds in past years, and in fact the competition was one of the main factors in launching the careers of famous names such as: Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Dmitri Alexeev, Ilya Itin, Artur Pizarro, Kathryn Stott, Noriko Ogawa, Louis Lortie, Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, and many more household names in the world of classical pianists. It seems to come as a huge shock to most people in Leeds that there is a regular local event happening every 3 years that is regarded as one of the most important events in the international world of professional piano- but don't just take my word for it- during the competition I asked some of the competitors why they had entered The Leeds- this is what Alim Beisembayev said who went on to become the winner: Clip And Elizaveta Kliuchereva who was in the semifinals: Clip And Ariel Lanyi who was the 3rd prize winner: Clip And semifinalist Priscilla Navarro: Clip A topic that's bound to come up in a review of a major music competition is about the controversy of whether musicians should take part in competitions and about whether we should take them seriously. There are plenty of people who very rigidly think that competitions for musicians are a very bad thing to be avoided. I personally think they can be a useful challenge for musicians, as long as the challenge is how to be deeply musical under pressure rather than get caught up in being too serious about competition and ego- this is a skill all professional musicians need to learn at some point or another! Ultimately, we can't really say that one amazing musician is better than another one- and personal subjective taste is going to vary enormously. I enjoyed chatting to people sitting near to me at every stage of the competiti...

For this episode we brought together two of the foremost lawyers of recent times Sir Sydney Kentridge and Lord Jonathan Sumption, both former members of Brick Court Chambers which they joined in 1978. Sir Sydney, who is now 98-years-old, was still working into his 90s and retains a keen interest in the law. He is widely considered to be one of the foremost advocates of the twentieth century, who achieved wide recognition for his work in his native South Africa representing three Nobel Prize winners; Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and Albert Luthuli and the family of Steve Biko at the inquiry into his murder by aparthied police in 1978. Lord Sumption is a former Justice of the Supreme Court and an awarding winning historian and author. He is a former joint head of Brick Court Chambers who appeared in a great many high profile cases including the proceedings between Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky in 2012. Their discussion was hosted by Fionn Pilbrow QC.

durée : 00:58:27 - Boris Berezovsky, intrépide et passionné - par : Aurélie Moreau - "Rachmaninov et Medtner sont les compositeurs qui expriment le mieux la beauté d'une Russie qui n'existe plus", Bobo, comme l'appellent ses proches, Boris Berezovsky joue Liszt, Saint-Saens, Godowsky Brahms, Tchaikovsky et bien sûr Medtner et Rachmaninov dans le van Beethoven. - réalisé par : Vivian Lecuivre

Tjajkovskijs 150-års fødselsdag i 1990 blev fejret med en gallakoncert i hans hjemby Skt. Petersborg - der dengang hed Leningrad. Det var samtidig et musikalsk topmøde mellem supermagterne USA og Sovjetunionen i tiden lige efter Murens fald, hvor amerikanske topsolister mødte det berømte sovjetiske orkester fra Leningrad. Tjajkovskij: Polonaise fra Eugen Onegin, Sérénade mélancolique, Valse-scherzo, Sange fra op. 65, Rokokovariationer, Arie fra Jomfruen fra Orléans, 1812 Ouverture. Itzhak Perlman, violin. Boris Berezovsky, klaver. Jessye Norman, sopran. Yo-Yo Ma, cello. Leningrad Filharmonikerne & Leningrads Militærorkester. Dirigent: Jurij Temirkanov. Koncert i Leningrad, 2. december 1990. Vært: Benedikte Granvig. www.dr.dk/p2koncerten

Save Meduza!https://support.meduza.io/enAbout a decade ago, after a temporary falling out with Vladimir Putin, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko tried to pivot his country to the West. In this endeavor, he had help from a British PR firm called “Bell Pottinger” that once employed some of the most influential spin-doctors in the world. The campaign was a complete failure: the consultants left empty-handed and Lukashenko became an international pariah once again. In August 2020, after workers at state television and radio broadcasters in Belarus started walking off the job in protest as the police brutally dispersed opposition demonstrations, a handful of independent journalists and activists reported that whole brigades of “strikebreakers” from Russia arrived to replace these employees. Meduza investigative editor Alexey Kovalev researched both of these stories, discovering that the oligarch Boris Berezovsky bankrolled Lukashenko's attempt to win over the West, and that Russian journalists now in Minsk aren't so much replacing Belarusian journalists as they are reshaping the local media's approach to propaganda. Meduza also spoke to Alex Kokcharov, a country risk analyst who focuses on Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, and the Caucasus, to learn more about younger Belarusians' media diets. “The Naked Pravda” comes out on Fridays (or sometimes Saturdays). Catch every new episode by subscribing at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or other platforms. If you have a question or comment about the show, please write to Kevin Rothrock at kevin@meduza.io with the subject line: “The Naked Pravda.”

durée : 00:57:50 - Musique matin du jeudi 20 août 2020 - par : Gabrielle Oliveira-Guyon - Le pianiste russe Boris Berezovsky nous livrera ce soir, le tout dernier concert du festival Pianos Folies au Touquet, dans la salle Ravel du Palais des Congrès. Ravel qui sera, par ailleurs, au programme de son récital ce jeudi 20 août, aux côtés de Debussy, Scriabine et Gerschwin. - réalisé par : Laurence Malonda

Books can have the best mentorship moments. This week we have a story about Boris Berezovsky from The Oligarchs by David E. Hoffman. We recorded this episode on our drive from Boston to New York City this Sunday, so lucky for you Sergei's Nissan 300ZX makes a guest appearance. In this episode we discuss how it was possible for a career academic to become a billionaire, and how the same thing can be done today to create opportunities. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

durée : 00:28:24 - La Grande table (1ère partie) - L'un des plus grand pianistes russes actuels, Boris Berezovsky, est invité à l’occasion de son récital de piano au Théâtre des Champs Elysées, le mardi 25 juin à 20h. Au programme, un compositeur phare de son répertoire, Rachamninov, et ses transcriptions, ainsi que du Scriabine...

durée : 00:28:24 - La Grande table (1ère partie) - L'un des plus grand pianistes russes actuels, Boris Berezovsky, est invité à l’occasion de son récital de piano au Théâtre des Champs Elysées, le mardi 25 juin à 20h. Au programme, un compositeur phare de son répertoire, Rachamninov, et ses transcriptions, ainsi que du Scriabine...

durée : 01:58:28 - Carrefour de Lodéon - Acte II du lundi 10 juin 2019 - par : Frédéric Lodéon - Cet après-midi, autorisons-nous deux heures de flânerie et d'exploration ad libitum dans l'immense catalogue que nous a laissé Franz Liszt. Au programme, quelques géants du clavier : Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Horowitz, Cyprien Katsaris, François-René Duchâble... - réalisé par : Philippe Baudouin

Fördjupningsreportage. Han var fiende till Putin. Han var vän med den giftmördade agenten Alexander Litvinenko. Och nu har affärsmannen Boris Berezovsky hittats död, men vännerna tror inte på självmordsteorin. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Russophile brought my attention to the following news from the Financial Times. Arch Putin enemy oligarch Boris Berezovsky admitted in an interview with FT reporter Jimmy Burns that he is indeed funding Other Russia. Don’t believe it? Listen to the audio file yourself. Russophile is right, Borya just doesn’t get it. He also is just […] The post Other Russia’s Sugar Daddy appeared first on SRB Podcast.