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They Bought Premium Housing Outside Moscow. They Still Can't Escape Russia's Decaying Infrastructure.
The Moscow Times ^ | 29 May 2024

Posted on 05/29/2024 9:12:57 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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To: DUMBGRUNT
“Oligarchs’’. How do you get to be one of those?

Is that the same as a ‘’tycoon’’?

41 posted on 05/29/2024 1:21:05 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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“Oligarchs’’. How do you get to be one of those?

First and most important is your connection to Putin.
All true oligarchs are made by Putin; accept no imitations.
Also, some ability to NOT steal more chains than you can swim with is needed.

—”Is that the same as a ‘’tycoon’’?

IMO tycoons/oligarchs are similar except for the Putin connection.
That said, my status is so low, that I do not recall ever seeing a tycoon, much less an oligarch.

The CEO of the megacorp I worked for walked down the hall of my building. But even he was below that station; perhaps an aspiring tycoon. He was once a member of Rosneft’s board!


42 posted on 05/29/2024 3:24:34 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Your figures are short more han a decade. Putins 23 years are the key to his popularity.


43 posted on 05/29/2024 3:39:51 PM PDT by Jumper
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-—” Putins 23 years are the key to his popularity.”

Pls, post a graph showing that in GDP per capita.

The graph posted in #36 is from 1989 to 2020. Putin took office in 1999.

Putin has given megabucks to his boyars and oligarchs, not so much to the ordinary citizens.
They would have been much better off in China.


44 posted on 05/29/2024 4:23:43 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: MeganC
When are you leaving and moving to Moscow?

When are YOU going to the frontlines in Ukraine to fight the eviiiil Russians? When is your husband, the Russian slayer?

45 posted on 05/29/2024 8:46:22 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

You first. You’re the actual Russian in this conversation so why aren’t you fighting for Russia instead of hiding behind your keyboard while real men do all the fighting and dying?


46 posted on 05/30/2024 9:10:06 AM PDT by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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