Aide says Kremlin will unlikely make public Berezovsky’s letter to Putin

Archive March 31, 2013, 19:26

“It’s very unlikely,” he said answering an Itar-Tass reporter who asked him if publication of the letter might be expected

MOSCOW, March 31 (Itar-Tass) – Kremlin does not have any plans to make public the letter that the late self-exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky wrote to President Vladimir Putin several months ago, the presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said Sunday.

“It’s very unlikely,” he said answering an Itar-Tass reporter who asked him if publication of the letter might be expected.

When the reporter asked him whether or not Putin answered the letter, Peskov said: “Well, I don’t have any information about it.”

Stories surfaced in Britain after Berezovsky’s death there a week ago that he had written a letter to Putin. Peskov confirmed then that the letter did exist, saying Berezovsky admitted his errors in it, as well as asked for forgiveness and for permission to return to Russia.

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