Call Me Stormy

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How I Became Putin’s Enemy

Bill Browder was once the largest investor in Russia. For a few years he blazed a trail, exposing corruption and scandal at Russia’s biggest companies, often by naming and shaming billionaire oligarchs. And he seemed to have a powerful ally in Russian President Vladimir Putin. All that abruptly changed on November 13th, 2005, when Browder was stopped at Moscow’s international airport and detained for 15 hours. He was expelled and banned from Russia, deemed a national security threat.

Here, Browder, founder of Hermitage Capital Management, explains how he became Putin’s No. 1 enemy.

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