A RUSSIAN TV chef who fled to London after opposing Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war has been found dead in a Belgrade hotel.

According to close friends, Berezovsky was increasingly depressed in his last days. In part, he regretted being the king-maker that put Vladimir Putin in line to succeed Boris Yeltsin in 1999.

Alexei Zimin, a 52-year-old Russian chef and former television presenter who openly opposed Vladimir Putin's invasion of ...

Berezovsky was closely enmeshed with Boris Yeltsin and responsible for elevating the unglamorous Putin—a mid-level bureaucrat, a “desk-jockey” and “KGB jobsworth”—first to the prime ...

Berezovsky became a strident and frequent critic of Putin, accusing the leader of ushering ... rising to prominence during the term of Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s. Russian media reported recently ...

Putin hinted that the mastermind was the exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a political enemy of Putin’s. RELATED: What Six Years of ‘Reset’ with Russia Have Wrought The trial ended on ...

Kremlin does not have any plans to make public the letter that the late self-exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky wrote to President Vladimir Putin several months ago, the presidential press ...

He answered, “Believe me, not [exiled oligarch Boris] Berezovsky,” who had accused Putin of orchestrating the bombing. In this way, he indicated that he was well aware of who, in reality ...

Violent death, after all, had followed Berezovsky throughout his adult life. Berezovksy fell out of favor with the Kremlin shortly after Vladimir Putin took power. President Boris Yeltsin stepped ...

Through his close relationship with the longtime chief of staff to Boris Yeltsin, Berezovsky became part ... the new regime of President Vladimir Putin, Berezovksy resigned and soon fled Russia.

When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. But soon Putin's ruthless rise threatens ...

When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. But soon Putin's ruthless rise threatens ...