PRIVACY from prying eyes is one reason so many of Russia's wealthiest men enjoy life in London. But the £3.2 billion ($5 billion) lawsuit between Boris Berezovsky (pictured right), Russia's best-known political exile, and Roman Abramovich (below), a confidant of Vladimir Putin and owner of Chelsea football club, is exposing a world normally guarded by libel lawyers, bodyguards and high fences around imposing mansions. In 1990s Russia, the two were associates: just how close is one of the many wrangles in the case. Their enmity now is undisputed.
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