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Russia Expects Berezovsky's Extradition From Britain After Revolution Statement Mos
News Russia expects exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky to be extradited from Britain where he has refugee status after the billionaire told a newspaper he was planning a revolution to topple President Vladimir Putin, Reuters news agency reports. “We need to use force to change this regime, ”Berezovsky said in his interview with Guardian newspaper Friday. The statement quickly rebounded on Russia’s relations with Britain, already strained by accusations from London-based dissidents including Berezovsky that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning death of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. “The main thing it seems to me is that he has put the British authorities and the British justice system in an awkward position,” Kremlin deputy spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Russia has for years been trying to extradite Berezovsky from his base in London to face corruption charges at home but has been foiled because of his refugee status. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference: “It is a question for the British authorities. They know perfectly well what this person is up to.” Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika said he had ordered a criminal investigation over Berezovsky’s remarks, though the tycoon is outside Russia’s jurisdiction. The Kremlin believes Britain is providing the 61-year-old Berezovsky with a safe haven and platform from which to conduct a campaign against Putin and his policies. Berezovsky was at the centre of allegations, angrily denied by the Kremlin, that Putin played a part in Litvinenko’s death in London last November. Berezovksy was a pall-bearer at Litvinenko’s funeral. The majority of Russian voters back Putin and have no appetite for revolution, but Berezovsky’s comments are also likely to raise the political temperature inside Russia in the run-up to parliamentary elections in December and a presidential vote in 2008.
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