Battling it out
HE IS often deemed the most manipulative man in Russia and he certainly now has everybody baffled. On July 17th, Boris Berezovsky, a central architect of Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory in March, said he would resign from parliament in protest at the country's “destruction” by its new rulers—meaning, he said, the authorities' attempts to grab political and economic power from Russia's “oligarchs” and regional bosses.
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