Posted on 04/23/2022 4:16:44 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Very few parts of Russian society have drawn more interest than the so-called “oligarchs.” These are incredibly wealthy men with political connections to Putin’s inner circle because, in the totalitarian kleptocracy that is Russia under Vladimir Putin, if you don’t have political ties to Putin’s inner circle, wealth doesn’t bring you power; it brings you a one-way trip to a Siberian labor camp.
The first generation of Russian oligarchs emerged from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, whose state control over the economy began to loosen under Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, or restructuring reforms.
Gorbachev’s successor as president, Boris Yeltsin, then ramped up privatization, seeking to transform Russia with its trove of state assets into a free-market economy — and fast. Yeltsin and the other architects of post-Soviet Russia rapidly loosened state control over prices and property, according to David Hoffman, author of “The Oligarchs” and a contributing editor at The Washington Post.
The government sold swaths of state-owned enterprise — from small restaurants to oil giants — in both rigged auctions and through privatization vouchers. A scramble for the spoils ensued.
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Should Bill Browder be worried?
I went to the site where this story came from and then to an additional site linked there and listed below. The first suicide/murder(?) happened in January. The most recent two a week or two ago. One was in Spain, another was in England, one might have been in France (don’ remember for sure) the rest in Russia. The wives and children were mostly stabbed multiple times. Does not sound like the way a suicidal father would kill his family, especially if he was pulling a Rommel. It will be interesting to see what details come out about their business activites. Several were bank officials.
“The wives and children were mostly stabbed multiple times. Does not sound like the way a suicidal father would kill his family”
Those family annihilators seem to favor guns over knives, from what I’ve seen on I.D., etc. Sounds more like a hit job commanded by one single higher-up.
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