Boris Berezovsky Seeks to Fund a New Russian Revolution
by John Little on 23/11/2007This is going to piss off Berezovsky’s hosts:
Exiled Russia tycoon Boris Berezovsky said Friday he is funding underground groups to “prepare people to go to the streets” to overthrow President Vladimir Putin’s government.
Berezovsky said Putin had violated the constitution and therefore his ouster was legitimate — and forecast a possible uprising like Ukraine’s Orange Revolution between elections in December and March.
“I don’t fund parties which are openly presented on the Russian political scene because it’s absolutely useless, but I (fund) people who are underground and that are trying to fight against the regime,” he told reporters.
“They are doing what underground movements all around the world are doing, they prepare people to go to the streets, to fight, to use force power against a criminal government.”
He said such an uprising could come after parliamentary elections on December 2 and before presidential polls three months later.
“I think it will be very dangerous months for Russia,” he said.
This isn’t the first time Berezovsky has made statements like this. I doubt that there’s much substance here but it’s still interesting to watch it play out.
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