The writer of “The Crown” takes on Putin and the oligarchs
In “Patriots”, Peter Morgan brings the drama of Boris Berezovsky’s fall to the stage
In retrospect, would Boris Berezovsky agree that the Russian privatisation scheme of the mid-1990s was unfair? The questioner had in mind the way a few insiders took over vast industrial assets for a song, a giant scam that helped discredit markets and democracy among their struggling compatriots. Absolutely it was unfair, replied Berezovsky, who in 2000 had sought refuge in Britain, where the exchange took place: Mikhail Khodorkovsky got more than he did.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “The oligarch’s lament”
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