Sure is a lot of that Russian Derangement Syndrome here. I thought once the Deomoncrats were ousted, the disease would die out.
“Sure is a lot of that Russian Derangement Syndrome here. I thought once the Deomoncrats were ousted, the disease would die out.”
Tidbit: Putin has more worth than the Russian pension fund he drained.
“Sure is a lot of that Russian Derangement Syndrome here. I thought once the Deomoncrats were ousted, the disease would die out.”
Putin offered the oligarchs a deal: bend to my authority, stay out of my way, and you can keep your mansions, superyachts, private jets, and multibillion-dollar corporations (corporations that, just a few years before, had been owned by the Russian government). In the coming years, the oligarchs who reneged on this deal and undermined Putin would be thrown into a Siberian prison or be forced into exile or die in suspicious circumstances. The loyalists who remained — and the new ones who got filthy rich during Putin’s long reign — became like ATM machines for the president and his allies.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-conquered-russias-oligarchy