Een boeiende long read over Abramovich en waarom we vooral niet moeten denken dat hij geen vriend is van Poetin. Vooral dat gedeelte over het bezitten van dat TV-kanaal wist ik niet
Wikipedia voegt daar eigenlijk nog veel straffere info aan toe:
Abramovich was the first person to recommend to Yeltsin that Vladimir Putin be his successor as the Russian president.[83]: 135 When Putin formed his first cabinet as Prime Minister in 1999, Abramovich interviewed each of the candidates for cabinet positions before they were approved.[33]: 102 Subsequently, Abramovich would remain one of Putin's closest confidants. In 2007, Putin consulted in meetings with Abramovich on the question of who should be his successor as president; Medvedev was personally recommended by Abramovich.[83]: 135, 271
Chris Hutchins, a biographer of Putin, described the relationship between the Russian president and Abramovich as like that between a father and a favourite son.

