Exiled Russian businessman and former Duma member Ashot Yegiazaryan at home in Beverly Hills. But Luzhkov quickly found another private sector partner to build an entirely new hotel — Yegiazaryan. Disillusioned with the Russian ruler, Yegiazaryan said he decided to bankroll the presidential ambitions of Mikhail Kasyanov, Putin’s first prime minister. Advertisement“I was told to stay away from the hotel,” Yegiazaryan said. Yegiazaryan claims the real origin of the dispute lay in the efforts to force him out of the hotel project.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 24, 2023 14:26 UTC