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In January 1996, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Berezovsky liaised with fellow oligarchs to form an alliance – which later became known as " Davos Pact " – to bankroll Boris Yeltsin's campaign in the upcoming presidential elections.

On his return to Moscow Berezovsky met and befriended Tatyana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's daughter, According to a later profile by The Guardian, " Berezovsky masterminded the 1996 re-election of Boris Yeltsin ...

He and his billionaire friends coughed up £ 140 million for Yeltsin's campaign ".