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[00:01.08]BBC News with Marion Marshall.
[00:03.08]The exiled Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky has been found dead at his home near London.
[00:08.41]He was 67.
[00:09.65]Mr. Berezovsky made a vast fortune in the 1990s after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
[00:14.92]From Moscow, Steve Rosenberg.
[00:17.07]He was by training a mathematician.
[00:20.10]And as the Soviet Union lurched towards disintegration, Boris Berezovsky moved fast to make money and gain influence in the new Russia.
[00:29.20]He sold cars; he bought a stake in Russia’s main TV channel, in the national airline too and in oil company.
[00:36.12]Crucially he became a member of the close in a circle of the ailing Russian President Boris Yeltsin
[00:41.95]and there he was able to exercise considerable power in Yeltsin’s Russia.
[00:46.88]But in Putin’s Russia there was no room for oligarchs with political muscle.
[00:51.33]Boris Berezovsky fell foul of the Kremlin and fled to London.
[00:55.27]Rebels in the Central African Republic are reported to be fighting running battles with government troops in the northern suburbs of the capital Bangui,