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If in 2003 Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman had learned that in 20 years they would all be living in the UK, they would not have been surprised. In the early 2000s, any self-respecting oligarch had already acquired real estate on the island. The late businessman Boris Berezovsky was granted political refugee status from London in the same year.
Today, Russian businessmen are abroad, but under the sanctions of Great Britain and the European Union and will not be able to dispose of their capital. And now, with the support of opposition politicians, they are counting on the leniency of the European authorities.
– The fugitive oligarchs are now fighting not over the past, but over the future. For the future of Russia, which they want to give back to themselves, – says RIA Novosti columnist Petr Akopov.
According to the analyst, in the actions of the oligarchs today, in general, nothing changes. In previous years, they shared natural wealth and now plan to return lost assets.
– And the competition here is no less fierce – only the result will not be the triumphant return of the oligarchs to Russia, but their transformation into a banal servant of Russia’s enemies. And in the final – the fate of the London pioneer Boris Berezovsky, – summed up Akopov.
