Boris Berezovsky - a life in pictures

Berezhovsky gives a talk at the Frontline Club in 2007 Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

Boris Berezovsky with his daughter Elizaveta in 1998 Photograph: .

Berezovsky demonstrates against the imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, in front of the Russian embassy in London in 2004 Photograph: Peter MacDiarmid/Reuters

Berezovsky wears a mask showing the face of Russian president Vladimir Putin as he leaves Bow Street magistrates court in 2003. Berezovsky was arrested after Russian officials sought his extradition on fraud charges Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images

Berezovsky leaves a press conference in London in 2007. He accused Putin of personally ordering a recent plot to kill him Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich in happier times when they were both deputies of the lower house of the Russian parliament in 2000 Photograph: Itar-Tass/Alamy

Berezovsky addresses the media outside the high court after losing his long-running legal battle with Abramovich Photograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images

Berezovsky outside his house in Egham, Surrey Photograph: John Downing/Getty Images

Boris Berezovsky and Yelena Gorbunova leave the high court Photograph: Gavin Rodgers/Rex Features

Boris Berezovsky at a news conference outside University College Hospital on the first anniversary of the death of Alexander Litvinenko Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA

Berezovsky lays flowers at the grave of Alexander Litvinenko, watched by his widow Marina and son Anatoly in Highgate on the fifth anniversary of Litvinenko's death Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

A photo collage by Andrei Budaev of Russian oligarchs Roman Abramovic and Boris Berezovsky at his exhibition Saturnalia of Power in St Petersburg in 2006 Photograph: ALexander Demianchuk/Reuters

Boris Berezovsky, escorted by his body guards, walks into the high court in central London for the start of his libel battle against Vladimir Terluk over claims by the latter that Berezovsky was involved in the killing of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images

Berezovsky at his home in Egham Photograph: John Downing/Rex Features