Once the richest and most powerful of the oligarchs who dominated post-Soviet Russia
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| link | Boris A Berezovsky and Alexander Litvinenko are/were business associates | business associate | null | 2006-00-00 | null | null | null |
| link | Oleg Deripaska and Boris A Berezovsky were Dorchester hotel meeting co-participants | Dorchester hotel meeting co-participant | 2000-03-13 | 2000-03-13 | null | null | null |
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