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Such continuous and willful blindness helped corruption to thrive and a tiny group of
oligarchs
gain control of the economy.
Finally, Russian
oligarchs
own more property in London and the south of France than they do in New York or Miami.
In effect, the
oligarchs
will reduce direct taxation on themselves and increase indirect taxation on everyone – much like increasing the sales tax on all goods.
Why would a group of American
oligarchs
pursue such a disastrous policy?
And they will offer various strange justifications that deflect attention from the essentials of their policy: lower taxes for the
oligarchs
and people like them, and higher taxes – not to mention significant losses of high-paying jobs – for almost everyone else.
What Ukraine needs is a sharp reduction in corruption, as well as real legitimacy (through the ballot box) for people who want to rein in the influence of
oligarchs
– a group that has sapped the economy through plunder and incompetence over the past two decades.
It is important to remember that the creditors in this instance are not a bunch of
oligarchs
or wealthy private bankers, but the governments of the other eurozone countries, democratically accountable to their own electorates.
While Prime Minister David Cameron’s government has staunchly opposed Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the City of London is determined to retain the Russian
oligarchs
as clients.
But the situation became much worse with the toppling of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the annexation of Crimea, which triggered a stock-market panic that weakened the Russian economy considerably and depleted the assets of Russia’s powerful
oligarchs.
Russia's
oligarchs
are undoubtedly unpopular, and Khodorovsky's arrest was evidently aimed at boosting Putin's prospects in the looming parliamentary and presidential elections.
But the
oligarchs
mobilized behind Anatoly Chubais, who ousted Korzhakov and his circle by June.
Moreover, Ukraine’s business leaders, aware of the fate of Russia’s
oligarchs
under Putin, see EU membership as a way of legitimizing their wealth and fending off Russian rivals.
The next moment Putin balks at removing Russia’s military garrison from Moldova’s secessionist Transdniester region while prosecutors talk ominously of putting more
oligarchs
in the dock.
Add to that endemic corruption, unscrupulous and powerful oligarchs, and fractious political parties, and it is easy to see why Ukraine’s efforts to consolidate a more democratic system will be exceedingly difficult.
In mid-December Putin held his annual dinner with the
oligarchs
– a feast in a time of plague, so to speak.
At the dinner, Putin reiterated his promise to protect the oligarchs’ fortunes from American and European sanctions.
The law obliges the Kremlin to compensate
oligarchs
for any foreign assets that they lose as a result of Western sanctions.
In less than three years, this popular online resource has been transformed from a respectable American start-up to a shady Moscow-based enterprise, co-owned by the Kremlin’s favorite
oligarchs.
All three factions applaud the downfalls of media
oligarchs
Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, but for different reasons.
And, as if the old sin of turning a blind eye to Russian
oligarchs
laundering money through the UK were not problematic enough, the suicidal act of quitting the EU leaves Britain with fewer tools to combat Russian meddling in its affairs.
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.
A hundred
oligarchs
in India hold assets equivalent to 25% of GDP, while 800 million of their compatriots survive on less than a dollar a day.
But now that Trump is filling his cabinet with
oligarchs
and former military men, we have reason to doubt that he will keep his promise to govern without the Washington “establishment.”
The conflict is not, as the government claims, between the people and a few
oligarchs.
I could, for example, have increased my popularity during my recent re-election campaign had I ordered the arrest of one or another of our domestic
oligarchs.
Some fear that the benefits of economic growth accrue to just a few
oligarchs.
At the same time, the Meiji
oligarchs
created a political system with no single focus of power.
Since the early 1990s, Ukrainian
oligarchs
had profited immensely from buying subsidized gas at low prices and selling it at a marked-up rate.
All of these changes mark the beginning of the end of the era of the oligarchs, ushered in with the presidential elections of 1996.
Mr. Putin has no need for the
oligarchs
to provide him with media support to avert a communist threat or offer a conduit for covert state financing.
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