As AvtoVAZ was allowed to sell cars to private dealers in late 1980s, Boris Berezovsky arranged to resell the cars to the public through his LogoVAZ dealerships.

The company was later purchased by Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky and an unknown group of private persons.

One of the most prominent of the financial barons Boris Berezovsky, who controlled major stakes in several banks and companies, exerted an extensive influence over state television programming for a while.

Putin has confronted several very influential oligarchs ( Vladimir Gusinsky, Boris Berezovsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in particular ) who attained large stakes of state assets, allegedly through illegal schemes, during the privatization process.

Among past guest speakers are Andrew Lloyd Webber, J. K. Rowling, Vivienne Westwood, Ian McKellen, Kevin Warwick, Boris Johnson, Rowan Atkinson, Ralph Fiennes, Terry Wogan, King Constantine II of Greece, Katie Price, Zoe Wanamaker, Boris Berezovsky and Kit Hesketh-Harvey.

in Forbes accused Boris Berezovsky of ordering the murder.

Klebnikov expanded allegations in his book Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the looting of Russia.

His bid was tentatively supported by billionaires Leonid Nevzlin and Boris Berezovsky ( both in exile after corruption indictments against them in Russia ), and also by former chess world champion Garry Kasparov.

Prince Michael has been under close scrutiny by the media for financial assistance given to him by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

Sibneft was created in 1995, at the suggestion of Boris Berezovsky, comprising some of the most valuable assets of a state-owned oil company.

After the case with former business partner Boris Berezovsky, Abramovich won the court case worth US $ 6. 5 billion.

In 1995, Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, an associate of President Boris Yeltsin, acquired the controlling interest in the large oil company Sibneft.

In May 1995, jointly with Boris Berezovsky, he set up the P. K.

Eventually, he met fellow Russian businessman and entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky.

Berezovsky introduced Abramovich to " the family ", the close circle around the then president, Boris Yeltsin, which included his daughter Tatyana Dyachenko and chief security adviser, Alexander Korzhakov.

Affiliates of Abramovich, with affiliates of Boris Berezovsky, purchased Russian oil company Sibneft for US $ 100. 3 million ( the company was worth US $ 2. 7 billion at that time ).

Abramovich established several fly-by-night firms and together with his friend Boris Berezovsky used them to acquire the stock of Sibneft.

Boris Berezovsky ( his one-time business partner ) alleged in 2008 that Abramovich harassed him with " threats and intimidation " to cheat him to sell his valuable shares at less than their true worth.

Abramovich was a close associate of controversial Boris Berezovsky who sold him his stake in Sibneft, although in July 2005 Berezovsky announced his intention to sue Abramovich in the British courts for pressuring him into selling most of his Russian assets cheaply to Abramovich after Berezovsky fled the country.

Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (, born in Moscow on 23 January 1946 ) is a former Russian oligarch, government official and mathematician, member of Russian Academy of Sciences.

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.

** Gleb (~ 987 ), Prince of Murom ( 1013 – 1015 ), as Boris, Gleb is being also claimed the son of Anna Porphyrogenita

Karloff always claimed he chose the first name " Boris " because it sounded foreign and exotic, and that " Karloff " was a family name.

Boris, who claimed for the throne against King Géza I of Hungary, although his mother had been repelled by her husband, King Coloman of Hungary because of adultery, besieged and conquered the Bratislava castle in 1146.

Yury Felshtinsky, Alexander Litvinenko, David Satter, Boris Kagarlitsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky, the secessionist Chechen authorities claimed that the 1999 bombings were a false flag attack coordinated by the FSB in order to win public support for a new full-scale war in Chechnya, which boosted Prime Minister and former FSB Director Vladimir Putin's popularity, and brought the pro-war Unity Party to the State Duma and Putin to the presidency within a few months.

President Adamkus, together with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Javier Solana, Boris Gryzlov and Ján Kubiš, served as a mediator during Ukraine's political crisis, when two candidates in the 2004 presidential election, Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko, each claimed victory.

By mid-August 1962, singer Boris Gmyrya had withdrawn from the premiere under pressure from the local Party Committee ; writing the composer, he claimed that, in view of the dubious text, he declined to perform the work.

However, prominent Croatian ethno-musicians such as Dunja Knebl and Lidija Bajuk disagreed, and both the song's composer Boris Novković and Severina herself have claimed that the song includes Croatian folk music influences from the Dalmatian Zagora ( Inner Dalmatia ) such as ganga and rere singing and lijerica instrumentation.

Dmitriy himself claimed that his mother, the widow of Tsar Ivan, had anticipated Boris Godunov's assassination attempt and had given him into the care of a doctor who hid with him in Russian monasteries.

When the Tsar Boris heard about the pretender, he claimed that the man was just a runaway monk called Grigory Otrepyev ( born Yury Otrepyev ; Grigory was the name given at the monastery ), although on what information he based this claim is unclear.

Some of the Russian boyars also claimed to accept Dmitriy's claim because it gave them legitimate reason not to pay taxes to Boris.

Far from liberating Bulgaria as he had claimed, John brought along Boris II and his family, together with the contents of the Bulgarian imperial treasury in 971.

When Boris Godunov heard about the pretender, he claimed that the man was just a runaway monk called Grigory Otrepyev, although on what information he based this claim is unclear.

In 1597 Boris Godunov (' de facto ' regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and Tsar from 1598 to 1605 ) wrote to Christian IV of Denmark and Norway, asserting that Vardøhus and " the Lapp country ( as far as Tromsø ) was from ancient times a perpetual patrimony of the Czar .” In 1600 Gudunov refused to ratify the Treaty of Tyavzino which resolved conflicting Swedish and Russian claims to the Kola peninsula to the east of Vardøhus as well as other territories both claimed.

Knežević also claimed that the cigarette cartel also poses a security threat to Boris Tadić and that even Croatian president Stipe Mesić gave Tadić documents during their meeting in Sofia on April 25, 2009 warning him of possible attacks on him.

* The first McDonald's restaurant opens in Moscow in 1990 with then-President of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR and future Russian President Boris Yeltsin attending, symbolizing Russia's transition towards a capitalist free market economy and a move towards adopting elements of western culture.

In February 1896 his father paved the way for the reconciliation of Bulgaria and Russia with the conversion of the infant Prince Boris from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, a move that earned Ferdinand the frustration of his wife, the animosity of his Catholic Austrian relatives ( particularly that of his uncle, Francis Joseph of Austria ) and excommunication from the Catholic Church.

Wary of a move toward the reinvigoration of Russian power, Brzezinski negatively viewed the succession of former KGB agent Vladimir Putin after Boris Yeltsin.

In September 1981, Salmon and Boris Sujdovic ( ex Rockets ) reformed the band, with Brett Rixon on drums and Tony Thewlis ( ex Helicopters ) on guitar, and prepared to move to Sydney.

As Prime Minister, Ungureanu had become the Democratic Liberal Party's probable candidate for the presidency when Băsescu's term expired in 2014, senior party members said, a move echoing Russia's President Boris Yeltsin's choice and promotion of Vladimir Putin.

On 3 March 2011 West Ham United's proposed move to the Olympic Stadium was approved by the British government and London mayor Boris Johnson.

He tried to move with General Boris Smyslovsky's army and cross the border, but neither Liechtenstein nor Switzerland would issue him an exit visa, so he stayed in Austria where he lived in the American occupation zone.

The gambit is considered weak ; Boris Avrukh writes that 1 ... e5 " seems to me the worst possible reply to White's first move ".

On 3 March 2011, West Ham United's proposed move to the stadium was approved by the British government and London mayor Boris Johnson.

In response to an upper-level trough Boris began to move to the north.