Re: Analysts - Putin to Launch Systematic Campaign Against Oligarchs

["Chris Doss" <nomorebounces@xxxxxxx>]

You should see the reaction to the Forbes report! (Forbes just released a "the 100 richest people in Russia" issue.) In the 90s, the oligarchs would trumpet their wealth to the skies and (probably) vocally exaggerate it. Now, they are scurrying to say that Forbes is overstating their wealth. They are all potential targets.

The exception is Boris "political corpse" Berezovsky, who is threatening to sue Forbes (again) for allegedly understating his wealth at a mere $640 million. BB and Forbes have a hate relationship that goes back to 1995.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:32:09 -0400
Subject: [PEN-L] Analysts - Putin to Launch Systematic Campaign Against Oligarchs

>
> 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