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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 12:19 PM
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Notorious Oligarch Berezovsky Reveals Plans for Coup in Russia
Wanted Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has gone public with his plans to seize power in Russia by force. The London-based oligarch said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station Wednesday that he had been working on the coup plan for 18 months.

Berezovsky, a notorious critic of Putin’s regime, said he aimed to replace the “anti-constitutional regime” in Russia.

“The regime has lost its legitimacy. Neither Putin nor the parliament are legitimate. They are anti-constitutional, because they have made a number of anti-constitutional decisions, such as replacing elected governors by appointed ones. This is absolutely against the spirit and the language of the constitution.”

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/26/berezrevolution.shtml
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toymachines Donating Member (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 12:26 PM
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1. I hadn't heard of this, interesting
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phoebe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 01:15 PM
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2. He's been out and about with Neil Bush in the last few months
he's now known as Platon Elenin as of 2003 - changed his name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/augsep05.htm

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September 22, 2005 -- Neil Bush meets Russian-Israeli oligarch in Latvia. There is an interesting postscript to WMR's Sept. 19 report on the selling out of America's communications security and intelligence infrastructure to neo-cons linked to international American fugitive Marc Rich. According to RIA-Novosti, Neil Bush, the brother of George W. Bush -- infamous from the Silverado Savings & Loan scandal and a sordid divorce trial from his ex-wife Sharon -- met on the evening of Sept. 21 in Riga, Latvia with Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who is wanted by the Russian government for a host of criminal activities, including embezzlement. Berezovsky, who also has Israeli citizenship and has been traveling between Israel, Britain (where he has political asylum), and Ukraine in an attempt to undermine Russian President Vladimir Putin's government, has been linked by international law enforcement agencies to Rich's global network. The Bush-Berezovsky meeting was apparently facilitated by Belokon Holding, a large Latvian investment firm headed by Valeri Belokon.

Belokon is reported to be involved with Berezovsky in supporting the right-wing and anti-Russian Latvian political party, New Era ("Jaunais Laiks"). The party was founded by wealthy Latvian financier Repshe Einars, a former Prime Minister and Defense Minister who has allegedly received financial support from Berezovsky, Belokon, and Grigori Krupnikov, a former chairman of the Latvian Jewish community and secretary general of New Era until January of this year. It is also noteworthy that Latvia has been a major hub of weapons smuggling for the international Russian-Israeli-Ukrainian Mafia (RUIM).

Berezovsky visited Riga to meet with Bush and other shareholders of Bush's company Ignite!, a firm involved in providing education and training software in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates. and, not coincidentally, in Florida and Texas. One of Bush's chief financial supporters is Defense Minister and Crown Prince of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, an individual who often crossed paths with the Taliban and Al Qaeda on his frequent hunting and falconing trips to eastern Afghanistan.

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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 01:30 PM
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3. Thanks for that information..
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 01:31 PM
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4. A coup would be less anti-constitutional that Putin's government?
That's interesting logic.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 01:33 PM
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5. why is this mobster tolerated?
seriously

his house or mansion or whatever you want to call it in london is actually on the tour, i don't understand why criminals are not arrested but celebrated, it isn't like anyone thinks he got this $$$ legally and now he is openly calling for a civil war?
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