{"id":1644,"date":"2013-03-24T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2013-03-24T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T18:26:08","slug":"on-the-death-of-boris-berezovsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/1644\/","title":{"rendered":"On the death of Boris Berezovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all the speculation, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-21914864\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> most interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an informal interview with journalist Ilya Zhegule on the eve of his death, and published on Forbes&#8217; Russian language website, Mr Berezovsky reportedly said his life no longer made sense and spoke of his desire to return to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is nothing that I wish more today than to return to Russia,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had underestimated how dear Russia is to me and how little I can stand being an emigre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this respect, Berezovsky is far from alone.\u00a0 Many a Russian has left the motherland and found they missed it terribly, which often surprises them.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard stories of Russians fleeing the Soviet Union who return to face execution or imprisonment rather than stay out of the homeland.\u00a0 Something to do with the &#8220;Russian soul&#8221;, I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all the speculation, I found this most interesting: In an informal interview with journalist Ilya Zhegule on the eve of his death, and published on Forbes&#8217; Russian language website, Mr Berezovsky reportedly said his life no longer made sense &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/1644\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}