The super rich Russians got richer during the pandemic? That would never happen in America.
Wait a minute! This is the Moscow Times? That can’t be right! They have no freedom!!! They can’t just write stuff that will offend the anointed leadership!
The author just wants to date Putin.
That’s a stupid headline. The top wealthiest people will ALWAYS be wealthier than all the rest.
I am dubious about statements like this. To start with, of Russia’s poorest, during communism they were openly kept down, and the only wealthy were communist party leaders.
So unless you track things from Boris Yeltsin’s reintroduction of capitalism, which more than anything else pointed out the grinding poverty that existed under communism, that is the *floor* of the graph.
Foreign wealth then poured in, and those that made deals and knew how things worked were the ones who made the bucks.
And as with mining, it is not the prospectors who become wealthy, but those who sell stuff to the miners.
If the average Russian was poor then, they are still poor, but from their point of view, they are a lot wealthier than they were. Only outsiders can make poor v. rich comparisons.
Let us throw out the forbidden fruit that the neo-con media refuses to publish.
Most of Russia’s “super wealthy” individuals are Jews. They work in concert with the “super wealthy” individuals in Israel who are Jews.
Together, both the Russian Jews and the Israeli Jews worked to develop the Israeli Leviathon gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea. Nothing wrong with that. Wealthy Jewish oligarchs work with other wealthy Jewish oligarchs, regardless of which countries they call home. How do I know that?
Well, I was there and it was reported in every Israeli newspaper in the country.
Look here: the Jew-hater fascist Biden tries to kill the EastMed pipeline to Europe.
“US informs Israel it no longer supports EastMed pipeline to Europe”
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-693866
So, when it’s reported that Biden is sanctioning “rich Russian oligarchs,” he’s going after Jews. Both in Israel and Russia.
It’s more FUD and propaganda from the Jew-hating deep state.
This was the same during the Soviet Union.
Seems like, that’s just how math works.