Boris Berezovsky died

Boris Berezovsky died. This was announced on his Facebook by the son -in -law of the entrepreneur Yegor Shuppe. "Boris Berezovsky suddenly died at 11:00 (local time) in London. Coroners are now in his house," a businessman family member toldInterfax . Journalist Natalya Gevorkyan confirmed the information about the death of Berezovsky on the air of "Echo of Moscow" .

According to the British police, the Berezovsky’s body was found in his house in Askot in the county of Berkshire, where an ambulance arrived at the call at about 15:18 (local time). The causes of death have not yet been declared, the British police do not give an explanation, BBC News reports.

Former general director of Kommersant holding Demyan Kudryavtsev claims that Berezovsky died due to heart failure “There are no signs of violent death,” he wrote in his microblog on Twitter about the death of Berezovsky.

According to spokesman Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov, Berezovsky wrote a letter to the president about 2 months ago, in which he apologized for making mistakes. “Some time ago, perhaps, a couple of months, Berezovsky sent a letter written to Vladimir Putin personally, in which he admitted that he made a lot of mistakes, asked Putin forgiveness for these mistakes and asked Putin to help him return to his homeland,” Peskov said . He noted that he "does not know about any reaction of Vladimir Putin in connection with the information about the death of Berezovsky." “But we can say that the information about the death of a person, whatever he is, cannot cause positive emotions,” the presidential press secretary noted.

Debts of Berezovsky

The Berezovsky page on Facebook was not updated for several months, but his name often appeared in the news. This week, Berezovsky decided to sell the stencil imprint of "Red Lenin" by Andy Warhol's work. According to The Times, Berezovsky put a picture for the Christie's auction in order to pay off debts for the lawsuit for the proceeds. Berezovsky himself told Publicpost on March 18 that he did not comment on this situation. Boris Berezovsky lost the lawsuit of the former business partner Roman Abramovich in August 2012. On Thursday, March 21, it became known that Berezovsky helped out 110 thousand pounds for Lenin .

In addition to the trial with Abramovich, in 2012 Berezovsky sued the former civil wife Elena Gorbunova. She lived with Berezovsky for more than 20 years and gave birth to two children from him, demanded to pay her 5 million pounds from the sale of their former house in the county of Surray worth 25 million pounds. January 23, on the day of the 67th anniversary of Berezovsky, the judge of the high court George Mann rejected his request to keep the lawsuit secret.

In 2011, during a divorce from his previous wife, Galina Besharova, Boris Berezovsky set a peculiar “divorce record”, paying her £ 100 million as compensation.

Biographical certificate

Boris Berezovsky was born in Moscow on January 22, 1946. In 1967 he graduated from the Faculty of Electronics and the Accounting Technology of the Moscow Forestry Institute, in 1973-the Mechanical and Mathematics faculty of Moscow State University. He worked at the Institute of Problems of Management of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, managed projects at AvtoVAZ, was the general director of Logovaz JSC, and headed the Automobile All -Russian Alliance. In the government of the country, Berezovsky was a member of the Council for Industrial Policy, replaced the Secretary of the Security Council and held a post in the Federal Commission on Chechnya's problems. In 1997, Berezovsky became an adviser to the head of the Presidential Administration, a year later - the chairman of the CIS Executive Secretariat. In 1999, he became a deputy of the State Duma, where he got to the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.

In 2000, Berezovsky abandoned the powers of the deputy and founded a civil freedom fund in the United States. A year later, in Russia, Berezovsky was put on the federal wanted list on the basis of an accusation of abuses in Aeroflot. Since 2003, Berezovsky received political asylum in the UK. In 2008, Forbes magazine estimated its condition at $ 1.3 billion.

In 2009, in Russia, Berezovsky was sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison in the case of the theft in Logovaz and AvtoVAZ. After the death of the Berezovsky investigation of criminal cases may cease, a source familiar with the situationtold Interfax . The Russian bureau of Interpol reports that he has not yet received any news or requests from official structures regarding the death of Berezovsky.

Bloggers reaction

Vladimir Markin , the official representative of the Investigative Committee: "If the UK receives an official confirmation of the English side about the death of Berezovsky, the criminal cases in which he passes the accused can be terminated if his relatives consent to this."

Sergey Dorenko , journalist: “Boris was less than a whole world. He could not reconcile with the reduction of the world and the mass betrayal of everyone who is nearby. It is not strange that Boris was disappointed in all those around him against the backdrop of failures, because he was the worst personnel on the planet Earth. The best that was with Berezovsky, the Closures, discussions of mathematical laws in their applied application for their appendix. Boris believed in the fierce energy of expansion and intellectual insolence behind the facet, and not, the world was tired of adventure and began to extinguish it. ”

Alexander Dobrovinsky , lawyer: “They just called from London. Boris Abramovich Berezovsky committed suicide ... There was a difficult man. The gesture of despair? Inability to live poor? A series of blows? I'm afraid that no one will know the truth ...”

Yuri Saprykin , journalist, chief editor of the United company Rambler-Afisha: “By the way, it is true that the founder of our Radio died.

Alexei Venediktov , editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow: “It’s a pity that they had been disposed of with Bab ... until recently, he was an absolutely fantastic interlocutor, he was also fantastically mistaken in people. His mistakes were always dazzling. The last time he talked with him to face three years ago and fiercely cursed about 2000. They found something about ...”

Vladimir Bartholomeev , deputy chief editor of Echo of Moscow: "Berezovsky is a demonic figure in itself, but also demonized by friends and enemies. And, of course, one of the real symbols of the 90s."

Ksenia Larina , observer of the Echo of Moscow radio station: “I am shocked by the death of Berezovsky. I was not personally familiar with him, I spoke only on the phone on the air, and I admit that his witchcraft felt on himself in these minutes. But that was the point. Something was strong, powerful, spontaneous in this person. And here Sasha Litvinenko how he defended. For some reason, I was sure that he would return to Putin, that he would still play his party in Russian politics ... What an unexpected finale. ”

Sergey Parkhomenko , publisher, journalist: “It’s hard for me to believe in Berezovsky’s suicide. Once we spoke with him-somehow accidentally rang out the conversation on this strange topic-about health and illness. He said to me:“ My health is one of my weapons. Who was the first to die - he lost. I won all the time ... "It was sitting very much in it. The last time I saw him exactly a year ago. He did not look like a potential suicide. At all."

Sergei Udaltsov , coordinator of the Left Front: "There was always a belief that Berezovsky would not die with his death ..."

Joseph Prigozhin , producer: "Boris Berezovsky, maybe he died, and Plato Elenin is alive?"

Vladimir Soloviev , TV presenter: "Berezovsky’s suicide is a sad and, alas, the logical end of his winding life."

Alexander Arkhangelsky , literary critic, publicist, TV presenter: “Boris Berezovsky died. Whatever we think about him (and on the day of death is either good or at all), he was a key figure in the past era. The era of historical, adventurous, bold, vile, large -scale, petty and reckless. They speak irritably, and after death they write books. The grandiose romance is over. "

Alexander Khinshtein , State Duma deputy: "There is no more Berezovsky. Life itself sets everything in its place."

Nikolai Uskov , president of the “Live!” Media group: “Boris Abramovich and death do not at all fit at all. He lived a complete coil even in the most bad circumstances. And I don’t think that this is suicide.”

Dmitry Olshansky , journalist: "Boris Abramovich was probably a big sinner. So, in any case, it was customary to think. But I almost knew him and did not see anything from him except good. In the end, he gave me a ticket for the first Paul McCartney concert in my life-and this, as you know, is not forgotten."