 Boris Berezovsky – scientist, entrepreneur, politician, political refugee. In 1998, a group of FSB members, led by Alexander Litvinenko, uncovered and made public at a press-conference an FSB plan to assassinate Berezovsky.
After Vladimir Putin was elected president in the year 2000, Alexander Litvinenko and Boris Berezovsky were forced to flee from Russia, and were granted political asylum by Great Britain.
In 2001, Boris Berezovsky founded the New York-based Foundation for Civil Liberties, which supports democratic transitions in former Soviet countries.
Boris Berezovsky’s Foundation for Civil Liberties supported Alexander Litvinenko’s activity to disclose and uncover KGB and FSB crimes.
Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Litvinenko were friends, and had similar views of President Putin’s regime and administration.
In 2010 Berezovsky won a libel suit in a British court against Russian state TV over a program, which accused him of being behind Litvinenko's murder.
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