Radio Free Europe reports that if the Kremlin thought it had exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky holed up in U.K., it was mistaken:

Kyrgyzstan's opposition claims that Berezovsky, who is wanted in Russia on criminal charges he denies, secretly flew into the country from London in July for talks with President Kurmanbek Bakiev. Bakiev has denied ever meeting with the Russian businessman. Kyrgyzstan's 24.kg news agency today reproduced a letter that the head of a Kyrgyz parliamentary commission that is probing Berezovsky's alleged contacts with Bakiev received on October 20 from Russia. In it, a senior official with the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office says Moscow has obtained confirmation that Berezovsky visited Kyrgyzstan for a few hours on July 29. The official says Kyrgyz authorities did nothing to arrest Berezovsky, thus violating "their international obligations."

Interesting talk about "international obligations" from Russia. Apparently, Russia had no obligation not to poison Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, nor any obligation to refrain from instigating a coup d'etat against Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, but Kyrgyzstan is "obligated" to arrest Berezovsky on trumped-up charges everyone in the whole country is guilty of so that he can be sent to Siberia and not seek to oppose the rise of the neo-Soviet Union. Kyrgyzstan, of course, is yet another country which has turned its face to the West and which Russia is seeking to reel back in to the neo-Soviet fold.

Kyrgyzstan also gave Russia a poke in the eye following the Russian protest, responding:

Kyrgyz General Prosecutor Kambalary Kongantiyev said he had no information about Berezovsky's visit. "If they (Russia) wanted a criminal investigation they should have asked us to detain Berezovsky. There was no such request," he said. Russia has made clear it expects ex-Soviet states to help detain him. Berezovsky has won asylum in Britain.

In other words, if you hotshot Russians can't keep track of him, that's not our problem, it's yours.