Analysts - Putin to Launch Systematic Campaign Against Oligarchs

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The name has been changed to protect the innocent, but on the whole , the
ex-Soviet People seem to have retained much better anti-capitalist reflexes
than those in the West have now.

Charles

^^^^^^

Chris Doss

BTW it looks like they may be gunning for Abramovich (to be fair to him, he
does seem to have done a lot for Chukotka as governor there):

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
www.rferl.org
May 25, 2004
Analysis: Another Oligarch, Another Investigation
By Julie A. Corwin

Question: What event of last July continues to have reverberations in
Russian political life? A) The arrest of Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovskii;
B) The ending of the transitional period for full implementation of the law
on political parties; C) Oligarch and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Governor
Roman Abramovich's purchase of the Britain's Chelsea soccer club for $233
million; or D) All of the above.

The correct answer is D. But if you answered C, then you will not be
surprised to learn that avowed economic liberal and Economic Development
and Trade Minister German Gref only last week condemned the purchase of
Chelsea by Abramovich, who formerly headed the Russian oil major Sibneft
and is the country's second-richest citizen.

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