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magazine to be the richest man in Russia. Berezovsky took public credit for last week’s shake-up, giving a series of interviews in which he said Chernomyrdin had to go to because he could not be elected president of Russia. With only two years before the next election, said Berezovsky, there is no "pro-capitalist" political figure in a position to win, with the risk that the presidency will pass to a candidate like Communist leader