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There is a small group of immensely wealthy people in Russia who have inspired a richly lurid collection of book titles, such as Godfather of the Kremlin. Boris Berezovsky and the looting of Russia; Sale of the Century. Russia’s wild ride from communism to capitalism; and Casino Moscow. A tale of greed and adventure on capitalism’s wildest frontier.1 They have also inspired their head of state, Vladimir Putin, to use language most unstatesmanlike in its brutality:
These people who fuse power and capital: there will be no oligarchs of this kind as a class.2
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© 2006 Stephen Fortescue
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Fortescue, S. (2006). Introduction. In: Russia’s Oil Barons and Metal Magnates. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800748_1
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