A top Russian businessman was slightly injured and his driver killed in a car bomb attack near Paveletsky Station, police said Wednesday. Boris Berezovsky, 47, general director of LogoVAZ and the All-Russian Auto Alliance, which was Russia's first private industry project, was wounded Tuesday when a radio-controlled bomb blew up his Mercedes. The car was standing outside his office on Novokuznetskaya Ulitsa. Police said the driver, whom they did not name, was killed instantly. The Moscow Counterintelligence Service, said that there have been 72 such bomb attacks this year. Berezovsky's companies, Alliance and LogoVAZ, said that the attack may have been motivated by competition in the auto market and described it as "a terrorist act" against Berezovsky. "There are forces in society which seek to hinder the formation of civilized business in the country and the revival of its economy, by barbarian, criminal methods," the statement said.
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