An aide to Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin described two Jewish-born media tycoons as “bacteria who live in disintegrating bodies but have to die when the body starts to recover.” The comments about Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Goussinsky came amid rumors circulating in Moscow about a possible crackdown on the two.
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