> from russia with blood britain was eyeing another big energy prize. the london stock exchange was readying itself for the flotation of rosneft, the russian state oil company, which was scheduled to go ahead on the eve of the summit, in mid-july. britain's financial services authority had approved the initial public offering---despite protestations that the bulk of rosneft's assets were stolen from the rival oil giant yukos, whose owner, mikhail khodorkovsky, had been jailed and stripped of his riches after criticizing putin. the flotation promised to earn the city of london a fortune, and the british oil giant bp was planning to snap up a massive stake in its kremlin-owned rival. so the government was eager to ensure it all went smoothly, and the spat over the spy rock was not a happy development. it was at this sensitive moment that berezovsky chose to launch his latest broadside.  incensed by a story planted in a kremlin-controlled newspaper alleging that he had obtained political asylum in britain through fraud, the oligarch lashed out more ferociously than ever---phoning in to the echo moscow radio station to announce baldly that he was plotting the violent overthrow of the russian government. ''the regime is doomed, and i want to see it collapse before russia collapses,'' de declared. ''there is only one way out a coup. a forced seizure of power.'' berezovsky, who claimed to have been plotting an armed uprising for eighteen months, could have made no more incendiary statement as putin licked his wounds in the wake of the orange revolution.
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