Oligarchs in example sentence

Perhaps today's greatest threat to freedom comes from an unholy alliance between government and business, such as in Fujimori's Peru, Mugabe's Zimbabwe, Mahatir's Malaysia, and the oligarchs' Russia, where the appearances of democratic process are often observed but state powers are diverted to benefit private interests.

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It's what the Russian oligarchs did in creating the sale-of-the-century privatization of Russia's natural resources.

He fought for Rome in Hispania alongside his great-uncle Caesar and took up the responsibility of avenging Caesar’s death when the corrupt oligarchs in the Senate betrayed and murdered him.

Ukraine does not collapse, but the oligarchs reassert themselves and the new Ukraine begins to resemble the old Ukraine.

Whether this unites the oligarchs, or divides them, and whether it forces them to take their money out of Russia, or bring it back home, cannot be predicted.

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