GODFATHER OF THE KREMLIN: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. - Review - book review

Washington Monthly, Oct, 2000 by Andrew Cockburn

The net result of the business practices exemplified by Klebnikov's subject has been a devastated country: its resources looted, its people (apart from a favored few) condemned to misery and despair, and lives that are becoming inexorably shorter as the population dies off. None of this appears to matter to Berezovsky and others like him. Given the relative quiescence of the U.S. and other western administrations--so long as each disaster can be labeled a move toward "reform" -- toward this depressing turn of events, no one here seems to care very much either. This book at least helps demolish any claim of ignorance.

ANDREW COCKBURN'S most recent book is Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Sadam Hussein.