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Leonid Bershidsky: Another billionaire incurs Putin’s wrath

By Leonid Bershidsky.
Viktor Vekselberg
Photo by wirtschaftsblatt.at
Since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, people who had made billions in the murky first decade of Russian capitalism have been picked off one by one: jailed, pushed out of the country, forced to give up assets or take part in unprofitable projects. Now, apparently, it's Viktor Vekselberg's turn: An attack on some of his top managers means that repeated demonstrations of loyalty to the Kremlin are no safety guarantee.

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