Boris Berezovsky was born in Moscow in 1946.  He is a businessman, mathematician, former Deputy Secretary of the Security Council, and former Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).  He is known as a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin's anti-democratic rule of Russia, and an advocate of liberal, democratic progress for Russia and the former Soviet Union. He now resides in London after being granted asylum by the UK government.

After graduating from Moscow Forestry Engineering College and studying in the Moscow State University, Boris Berezovsky began work at the Research Institute of Control Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAN), where he worked for more than thirty years.  He remains a Professor and Corresponding Member of the RAN, and is the author of more than 100 research papers on optimisation theory.

In 1989 Boris Berezovsky began his business career by founding LogoVAZ, one of the first private companies in Russia. His interests ranged from applied programming, mass media, airlines, car manufacturing and trading, oil and aluminium.

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Boris Berezovsky