Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Бори́с Абра́мович Березо́вский, also known as Platon Elenin, born January 23, 1946) is a Russian-born billionaire. Originally a used-car salesman, Berezovsky became a vastly successful businessman in the early 1990s and acquired political connections which he used to support Boris Yeltsin. However, after the accession of Vladimir Putin, he feared arrest and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 2001 where he was granted political asylum and became a British citizen.

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• Elections are not a viable means of ensuring democratic change in Russia.
  • Bloomberg News, 13 April 2007

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• I am calling for revolution and revolution is always violent.

• I do not advocate or support violence.
  • Six hours later in an e-mailed statement.