Red menace

Bill Browder’s lucrative business career in Russia brought him onto the radar of Vladimir Putin, with costly results – and since then, his life has never been the same. Words: Andrew Lynch

Bill Browder: ‘Russian business culture is like a prison yard. All you have is your reputation’ Picture: Feargal Ward
Bill Browder: ‘Russian business culture is like a prison yard. All you have is your reputation’ Picture: Feargal Ward

Bill Browder lives life as a marked man. Although the 50-year-old Chicago businessman politely declines to discuss his safety arrangements, it seems reasonable to assume that bodyguards are watching his every move in Dublin today. The reason is simple – he considers himself to be Vladimir Putin’s biggest enemy in the world, and assumes that one ...