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Boris Berezovsky
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Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
Boris Berezovsky was a Russian businessman and mathematician who became one of the country's most influential oligarchs during the 1990s, accumulating vast wealth through media and energy interests. His life matters historically because he exemplified the rise of powerful private figures in post-Soviet Russia and his subsequent conflicts with the government illustrated the tensions between oligarchs and state power during that era.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- How to Earn a Fortune
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Known for
- Traitors — Self (archive footage)2024
- Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! — Self (archive footage)2021
- Spycraft — Self2021
- Citizen K — Self2019
- The Man Who Was Too Free — Self (archive footage)2017
- Код доступа — Self2017
- Poisoned by Polonium — Self - Businessman2007
- Oligarchs2004
- HARDtalk1997
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Russia
- Active from
- 1991
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13,187
- Total plays
- 171,089
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Boris Berezovsky (b. 1969) is a Russian pianist, reputed for his virtuosity. He first became well-known after winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990 and has since recorded many works, most of which are fast-paced, highly technical, and thus demonstrate exactly why he won. Most of his recordings have been made for Teldec Classics, formerly a subsidiary of Warner. He also released a DVD of a performance of the 12 Transcendental Études by Liszt. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
· 2012 · cited 15,174x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,803x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,255x
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Quotes
- “If we had not just 10 oligarchs, but more like 1,000, all of Russia's problems would be solved.”
- “I do support direct action. I do not advocate or support violence.… Elections are not a viable means of ensuring democratic change in Russia. Therefore I do support using other methods to push for a change back towards democracy”
- “There is nothing I want more than to return to Russia.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian: Борис Абрамович Березовский, Hebrew: בוריס ברזובסקי; 23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013), also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and held the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
Berezovsky had an estimated net worth of $3 billion in 1997, which he amassed through the privatisation of state property in the early 1990s, most notably the main television channel, Channel One. By the time of his death in 2013, however, he was impoverished and severely depressed, having lost a series of legal battles against his former friend Roman Abramovich, been forced to sell assets, and undergone a costly divorce settlement with his former wife. Berezovsky helped fund Unity to secure Vladimir Putin's election, in the expectation that the status quo and the influence of the oligarchs would be preserved. He was elected to the State Duma in the 1999 Russian legislative election, standing as a Putin loyalist. Following the 2000 Russian presidential election, however, Putin consolidated power and became increasingly autocratic, demanding the loyalty of all oligarchs; Berezovsky then went into opposition and resigned from the Duma. He remained a vocal critic of Putin for the rest of his life.
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