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Berezovsky: Putin May Pull a 'Hillary'
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky predicted that if Hillary Clinton wins the White House in 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin will feel justified in installing his wife as his successor. The normally reclusive Berezovsky spoke to a small group of journalists in London last week, accompanied by a phalanx of armed guards. A sharp critic of Putin, Berezovsky has been the target of several assassination plots. One of his former employees, Alexander Litvinenko, was poisoned with a rare radioactive isotope and died in London last November. Berezovsky told the London gathering that he was certain Putin knew about and authorized the plot against Litvinenko. He also said that it will be necessary for the West – meaning the U.S. and Britain – to "use force” to effect "regime change” in Russia. According to Berezovsky, Putin will never give up power because he knows "he would be liable to be prosecuted for his many crimes,” including the murder of Litvinenko.
Story Continues Below Berezovsky maintained that Putin would ultimately use a strategy that would allow Russians to "claim that their system works just as fairly” as the American political system. That is "a rhetorical tactic they’ve been employing for a long time,” said a source in London.
Berezovsky asserted that particularly "if Hillary Clinton wins the next election, Putin will simply install his wife Ludmilla as president of Russia.”
The source added: "He went on to explain that Ludmilla has been given credit for expertise in many fields in the last few years in preparation this Clintonian political symmetry.”
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