U.S. and British newspapers carry ads of exiled Russian tycoon

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U.S. and British newspapers carry ads of exiled Russian tycoon

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Exiled Russian media tycoon Boris Berezovsky and other Kremlin critics took out a full-page advertisement in U.S. and British newspapers on Tuesday warning the United States not to trust Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The advertisement in the Washington Post, Financial Times and other papers was clearly designed to embarrass Putin just as he heads for the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly and a summit with President Bush.

Entitled "Seven questions to President George Bush about his friend President Vladimir Putin," it accused Putin of undermining democracy, stamping his control on the parliament, courts and media, and overseeing genocide in war-torn Chechnya.

Berezovsky, a former car salesman, rose to become a wealthy power broker under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s. But he fell out with Putin and fled to Britain, from where he has tried to stir up opposition to the Kremlin. Moscow has tried to have him extradited on charges of fraud but its case was dismissed this month after Berezovsky was granted political asylum in Britain.

The advertisement was also in Britain's Daily Telegraph and The Times, as well as the Wall Street Journal Europe. It was not immediately clear if it was in the Journal's U.S. edition or the New York Times on Tuesday as they had yet to be published.

Source: Agencies

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