Boris Berezovsky said the day before his death that his life was pointless, according to an interview published on Forbes' Russian language website.

"My life no longer makes sense," he told journalist Ilya Zhegulev. "I have no desire to take part in politics. I don't know what I should do. I am 67 years old, and I don't know what I should do from now on," Berezovsky said in the interview, published on the Forbes.ru website.

Zhegulev said it had been an informal interview on Friday evening that he had not recorded. He had promised Berezovsky not to publish it.

But he decided to make it public after the oligarch was found dead in his home outside London in what police called unexplained circumstances.

"There is nothing that I wish more today than to return to Russia," he quoted Berezovsky as saying.

"I had underestimated how dear Russia is to me and how little I can stand being an emigre."

AFP

(China Daily 03/25/2013 page11)