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Berezovsky Killed Litvinenko, Said Acting President of Chechnya
Chechnya’s Acting President Ramzan Kadyrov blamed on billionaire Boris Berezovsky deaths of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and former FSB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Ramzan Kadyrov voiced his accusations during the news conference held in Grozny Tuesday. “This man killed Litvinenko and Politkovskaya, it is evident. They are digging for the tracks in Chechnya, while the crime orderer is in London. It reminds of a Russian proverb with a hunter seeing a bear in front of him but looking for the tracks in the snow,” Kadyrov was explicit.
Kadyrov made his statement a day after the media reported that the traces of Politkovskaya’s case were leading to the people close to Kadyrov.
According to Kadyrov, Politkovskaya and Litvinenko had done everything required by Berezovsky and “became of no need for him.” Kadyrov said they had been never agitated about Politkovskaya, as all her articles about Chechnya could be read as children’s fairy tales. “She had written what she heard, based on rumors,” Kadyrov specified.
More than 20 criminal cases were opened following the journalist investigations of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya, who paid particular attention to the right violations in Chechnya by federal forces and Kadyrov’s supporters.
No one except Berezovsky would have profited by deaths of Litvinenko and Politkovskaya, according to the acting president of Chechnya. “He wanted to explode the image of the state,” Kadyrov explained. “Litvinenko and Berezovsky launched open procedures aimed at disrupting the foundation of the sovereign state, Russia. But Litvinenko spoke out in full and became of no need for Berezovsky, so he removed him,” Kadyrov said.
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