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Around the world, oligarchs are buying up media outlets to promote their interests and increase their influence, while journalists who report on issues like discrimination and corruption are met with intimidation, violence, and murder.
The central bank – once in the pocket of the country’s oligarchs, supplying inside information on exchange rates and liquidity in exchange for bribes – has been put under the command of a governor committed to reform, surrounded by an increasingly professional team.
There are signs that the oligarchs’ grip is beginning to loosen, owing partly to internal conflicts among them.
Europe has been unable to attract much more than a few disreputable oligarchs, who migrated to the French Riviera, and a handful of lively street singers.
And as the better-known offspring of Russia’s previous generation of oligarchs have steadily left the country, the children of Putin’s cronies have taken their place.
Putin’s intergenerational cronyism has made the oligarchs and their families ever wealthier.
Two out of the three most important TV channels (state channels from the formal point of view but are really controlled by the "family" around President Yeltsin, including the family oligarchs like Boris Berezovsky), transmitting across all Russia, almost completely prevented the two main opposition parties -- the Primakov and Luzhkov "Fatherland-All Russia”(OVR) and Yavlinskiy's "Yabloko" from getting their message broadcast.
That is what I – and all of Ukraine’s democrats – want for our country: a society of opportunity, under the rule of law and not under the thumb of cronies and oligarchs, in an open Europe.
The reason is simple: the lack of credible property rights under Putin’s system of crony capitalism forces senior Russian officials and oligarchs to hold their money abroad, largely within the jurisdictions of the Western governments against which Putin rails.
A new bill, which US President Donald Trump signed into law on August 2, calls for far-reaching investigations into “senior foreign political figures and oligarchs in the Russian Federation” – including “spouses, children, parents, and siblings” – and their assets within 180 days.
The power of the KGB was simply replaced by the power of corrupt private oligarchs and an even more morally bankrupt state apparatus.
The distorted markets imposed on Russia by the new oligarchs created by Russia's market "deforms" (I refuse to let such monstrosities parade under the name of reform) has brought the country back full circle.
These black/brown/red brigades don't just promise investigations and some sort of punishment for Russia's privatized oligarchs and their allies in the bureaucratic den of thieves.
He ran against the West and the “chaos” of the 1990’s, just as he raged against Chechen terrorists in 1999 and against oligarchs in 2003.
In 1997 government attempts to tame the power of the oligarchs redounded against the state as the cabinet was dissolved.
And several Jewish oligarchs were close to Yanukovych until the very end.
He could browbeat Russia’s oligarchs into submission and recast the upper house of the Duma to make it bend to his will because he was universally popular and the other elements of Russia’s mostly discredited government knew it.
The oligarchs, who once sought close ties to regional bosses in hope of securing the help of governors in taking control of local factories, mines, and other assets, have been cowed by Putin.
Global leadership today seems to be held hostage by financial interests and associated media, ideologists, and oligarchs whose political influence enables them to secure more rents and pay lower taxes in what must truly be the most vicious of circles.
Russia’s famous oligarchs have already stashed most of their wealth abroad, but they retain significant savings at home.
In these countries, oligarchs and the organized underworld have not captured the state; rather, an organized “upperworld” of elites have captured the economy, including the oligarchs themselves.
The billions lent to Russia quickly wound up in the Swiss and Cyprus bank accounts of Russia's oligarchs.
Indeed, Kuchma seems to have torn a page from Boris Yeltsin's 1996 campaign manual, employing strong-arm tactics to intimidate and silence the opposition, as well as a tainted privatization process to buy support from Ukraine's powerful and corrupt oligarchs.
President Kuchma must move fast to use his 56% victory at the polls to distance himself from greedy oligarchs and institute long-promised economic and political reform.
Whereas the UK’s “Leave” campaign peddled trumped-up dangers from immigration to make its case, activists in Ukraine are facing very real threats as they work toward a civil-society framework that can stand up to internal pressure from the oligarchs and external influence from Russia.
Ukraine’s economy is dependent on both Russia and the EU; its labor migrants go both east and west, and its no-nonsense oligarchs keep their eggs in at least two baskets.
This may partly reflect another “Russian” feature of the current US election campaign: the power of oligarchs.
In Russia, the oligarchs are accountable to Putin.
In the US, by contrast, it seems that the politicians are accountable to the oligarchs, who use their money to manipulate ordinary citizens.
The investments needed to boost growth are being held back by Russia’s limited access to key technologies and global financial markets, and by sanctions on Russian companies and oligarchs close to Putin.
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