On Monday Glushkov didn’t show up to a court hearing at the commercial Rolls Building in London. When Berezovsky fell out with Putin and escaped to London, Glushkov was arrested in Moscow. Glushkov believed he had been taken hostage so that Berezovsky would sell his ORT TV station to state interests. Alex Goldfarb, who knew Glushkov well, described him as a talented manager, with a good sense of humour and “cynical irony”. “I’m practically the last one left,” Glushkov told the Guardian in 2013, in words that now seem grimly prophetic.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2018 20:37 UTC