The Russian Jewish tycoon Boris Berezovsky was granted political asylum in Britain. Berezovsky, a ormer Kremlin insider who got on President Vladimir Putin’s bad side, has been living in London for nearly wo years. Britain rejected an asylum application from the tycoon in March. It did not explain why it had eversed its decision this week.
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