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Rather than trying to control millions of bourgeoisie, the state can deploy secret police to manage just a few dozen oligarchs.
On the one hand, he has introduced a flat income tax that favors the wealthy and a child tax credit that benefits only higher-income households; on the other hand, like Putin, he maintains a coterie of “friendly” oligarchs who help shore up his power, not least by controlling the Hungarian media.
Ukraine’s powerful oligarchs are also looking West rather than East for business.
Meanwhile, Russian oligarchs have been purchasing European newspapers, including The Independent, The Evening Standard, and France-Soir.
Instead, oligarchs fix the rules to maximize their own income and wealth.
In late March, the government adopted new measures to protect Russia's car industry, proposed by the young oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Alexei Mordashov.
In today’s Russia, for example, property rights do not enjoy widespread popular support, because so many of the country’s fabulously wealthy oligarchs are seen as having acquired their wealth through dubious means.
Stealth laws that claim to defend local values, religion, or the traditional family have nothing to do with protecting society from scary, immoral gays; they have everything to do with protecting scary, immoral oligarchs from society.
Even Russia’s oligarchs are pawning their yachts and selling their private jets.
Nor have the oligarchs been bailed out.
Cash-strapped Armenia had no alternative but to hand over the shares, which it did in a 2002 treaty candidly titled “Possessions in Exchange for Debt” – a reminder of the infamous “debt-for-equity” swaps of the Yeltsin years (another Chubais invention), which spawned Russia’s oligarchs.
Putin promised stability and order, and consolidated his power by taking down his political opponents, liberals and oligarchs alike.
In the end, it may be the oligarchs who have bankrolled Yanukovych’s career – particularly Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man – who will make the ultimate decision about Ukraine’s fate.
As Ukraine’s European prospects diminish, the economy – and thus the oligarchs’ fortunes – will be exposed to the Russian siloviki’s untender mercies.
Even the nationalization of Yukos’s assets may reflect little more than the absence of alternative buyers, given the obvious political obstacle passing those assets on to other domestic private-sector players (i.e., oligarchs), and the legal and reputational barriers to foreign investors.
But fighting terrorists requires an entirely different kind of spying from "uncovering" traditional "spies," or neutralizing unpopular oligarchs such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s League party who is now Minister of the Interior in Italy’s coalition government, recalls the cozy atmosphere of his meeting with Putin in 2014: “We talked about the absurd sanctions against Russia introduced by the cowardly EU that defends the interests not of its own citizens, but rather of the economic oligarchs,” and about “important topics ranging from the protection of national autonomy to the fight against illegal immigrants and defense of traditional values.”
Having earned many millions of dollars working for dictators and thugs around the world, including Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Jonas Savimbi in Angola, in recent decades he made much of his fortune working for Russian oligarchs and the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
Like other Russian oligarchs, Deripaska is not known to deal gently with people who displease him.
What leverage can be wielded by the Russian oligarchs who, in 2004, when Trump was mired in one of his bankruptcies, stepped in for the American banks that had blacklisted him to recapitalize his companies and bought – sight unseen and at premium prices – luxury apartments in Trump World Tower?
The most fundamental of these values is democracy, understood to entail not merely periodic elections, but also active and meaningful participation in decision making, which requires an engaged civil society, strong freedom of information norms, and a vibrant and diversified media that are not controlled by the state or a few oligarchs.
Ancient Athens became a “democracy” – literally, government by the people – when Kleisthenes organized ordinary fisher folk and farmers into a mass rabble capable of defeating Sparta-backed oligarchs.
He reacts to Russia's domestic problems - widespread poverty, the situation in Chechnya, the fight against oligarchs - just as clearly, promptly, and explicitly, while most other politicians either keep silent or mumble incoherently.
Yushchenko is careful not to criticize oligarchs but “bandits” and corruption, because smaller oligarchs support him.
A few oligarchs garnered billions, but they did so by stripping assets, rather than creating wealth.
Indeed, a potential heir today needs legitimacy, not only from the powerful oligarchs but also from the street.
After all, the ruling communist oligarchs have grown accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle.
He has both money – the government’s budget and the oligarchs’ fortunes – and the coercive power of the state firmly in his hand.
The oligarchs’ businesses have been largely nationalized.
Moreover, Putin’s project to safeguard “great Russian statehood” from the disarray of the post-Soviet era has seen the imprisoning of “dishonest” oligarchs; the prosecution of an “irresponsible” press; and the establishment of his personal dictatorship over the rule of law.
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