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In an interview with Le Figaro , Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky--the man known as the "Rasputin of the Kremlin" because of his allegedly central role in all major political maneuvers in Russia--denied that he has ever supported the Chechen warlords and blamed them for the recent wave of terrorist bomb attacks.
An LAT front-pager and a story inside the NYT report that the offices of onetime Yeltsin intimate, gezillionaire Boris Berezovsky (the LAT headline calls him the "Rasputin" of the current scene), were raided this week by government agents on the trail of Berezovsky's political espionage organization.
Possibly, he's confusing him with that other wily courtier, Rasputin, the man behind the czarist throne, who was poisoned, drowned, etc., but managed to keep coming back.
Critics like the all-star cast of voices (Meg Ryan, John Cusack, and Christopher Lloyd) and the animation, which get "the Disney house style down cold" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). But they profess disappointment at the story, especially at the part where Rasputin causes the Russian Revolution by casting a magic spell.