Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has died, it was reported today.

KNIGHTSBRIDGE, London. 2007. Boris Berezovsky, aka “the Godfather of the Kremlin”, is shopping at Dolce & Gabbana.

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has lost his High Court battle with Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.

A British High Court judge will rule today on a multibillion-pound legal battle between Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich will discover this week whether he has won a multibillion-pound legal battle with fellow Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, court officials have said.

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich today told a High Court judge that he never made notes and struggled to read his own handwriting.

HELICOPTER trips, smart skiing holidays and plush properties are just a few of the luxuries that changed Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s mind about not imitating a rival’s “extravagant lifestyle”, a London court has heard.

Roman Abramovich today told a British High Court judge that buying Chelsea in 2003 was a “turning point” and changed his life “significantly”.

An exiled Russian oligarch called Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich a “bastard” after being “blackmailed”, a British High Court judge was told.

SHAY GIVEN has criticised UEFA’s seeding system for the play-offs despite the fact that the Republic of Ireland have been confirmed as one of the top four sides for today’s eight-team draw.

IT wasn’t pretty, of course it wasn’t. But it was effective. Just about.

AN EXILED Russian oligarch has told a British trial that Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich was a “gangster”.

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RUSSIAN oligarch Boris Berezovsky yesterday told the High Court that tycoon Rupert Murdoch was a “great businessman” and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich a “genius”.

CHELSEA Football Club owner Roman Abramovich is “good at appearing to be humble”, a British High Court judge was told.

RUSSIAN oligarch Boris Berezovsky has a lively sense of his own importance and some of his actions appear to conform to the “classic psychology of the political exile”, a lawyer for Chelsea Football Club’s owner Roman Abramovich told the High Court in London.

CHELSEA Football Club owner Roman Abramovich operated in a Russian state in which the “rule of law” had disappeared, police were “corrupt”, courts “open to manipulation” and businessmen needed access to a “political godfather”, a judge in London has heard.

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich "betrayed and blackmailed" fellow Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and demonstrated that wealth and influence meant more to him than loyalty and friendship, a barrister has alleged in the High Court.

ARMENIA stunned Slovakia with four second-half goals in Zilina to blow Ireland’s Euro 2012 qualifying Group B wide open.

Armenia stunned Slovakia with four second-half goals in Zilina to blow Euro 2012 qualifying Group B wide open.

IRELAND’S Group B opponents Armenia retained their slim hopes of qualifying for Euro 2012 when they picked up their third win in Euro 2012 qualifying after beating bottom side Andorra 3-0.

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CHELSEA Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has lost an appeal over a £2 billion (€2.4bn) claim against him by fellow Russian oligarch and former business partner Boris Berezovsky.

THE pity for Ireland was that Armenia had done Giovanni Trapattoni a huge favour earlier yesterday in Yerevan by claiming their first Euro 2012 Group B win over our group rivals Slovakia.

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Republic of Ireland skipper Robbie Keane and experienced defender Richard Dunne were both able to start this evening’s opening Euro 2012 qualifier in Armenia after recovering from injury.

THE wife of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky won a “quickie” divorce yesterday in what lawyers speculated could be the biggest settlement in British legal history.

CHELSEA Football Club owner Roman Abramovich lost a bid to dismiss a £2 billion (€2.25bn) claim against him by fellow Russian oligarch and former business partner Boris Berezovsky yesterday.

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich lost a bid to dismiss a £2bn (€2.2bn) claim against him by fellow Russian oligarch and former business partner Boris Berezovsky today.

Boris Berezovsky won £150,000 High Court libel damages today over claims on a Russian TV broadcast about the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

ONE billion dollars is no longer enough to gain entry to Russia’s rich list.

POLICE are investigating the “suspicious” sudden death in Britain of a billionaire Georgian businessman linked to leading Russian dissidents.

Britain’s ambassador to Russia said today that the Government will continue to press for the extradition of the main suspect in the killing of Alexander Litvinenko despite his probable membership in Russia’s new parliament, Russian news agencies reported.

Exiled Russian plutocrat Boris Berezovsky was today convicted by a Moscow court of embezzling millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot and sentenced to six years in prison.

THE courage of Marina Litvinenko is the driving force behind the continuing fight to bring her husband’s killers to justice.

The courage of Marina Litvinenko is the driving force behind the ongoing fight to bring her husband’s killers to justice.

The vehemently nationalist Liberal Democratic Party today named the prime suspect in the killing of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko to a top slot on its list for parliamentary candidates, Russian news reports said.

Russia today announced that 10 people had been arrested in connection with the killing of journalist and outspoken Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, including police officers and a Chechen crime boss accused of organising the murder.

A hitman sent to London to murder exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky was arrested and deported back to Russia, police confirmed tonight.

Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky has denied having “any dealings connected to Carlos Tevez” or any involvement in money-laundering after it was reported in South America that a Brazilian judge had issued warrants for the arrest of Berezovsky and Tevez’s representative Kia Joorabchian.

The Carlos Tevez transfer saga took a fresh twist today after a reports from South America claimed a Brazilian judge had issued an overseas arrest warrant for the player’s advisor Kia Joorabchian.

A preliminary hearing was held today in the trial in absentia of Kremlin foe Boris Berezovsky on charges that he embezzled millions of pounds from Russian national airline Aeroflot.

Russia’s spy agency said today it has opened a criminal investigation into allegations by a Russian man that he was recruited by Britain’s foreign intelligence agency, MI6.

Russian investigators are looking into allegations that self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky could have been involved in the London poisoning death of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a top law enforcement official said Friday.