Althouse: "Most Russian oligarchs tend to end up acquiescing to the Kremlin, or else are killed, jailed, or exiled into oblivion."

March 25, 2013

"Most Russian oligarchs tend to end up acquiescing to the Kremlin, or else are killed, jailed, or exiled into oblivion."

"But Mr. Berezovsky’s life simply unraveled."

13 comments:

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: -Killed
-Jailed
-Exiled
-Unraveled

Don't give any of these ideas to our Chicago pols.; 3/25/13, 9:04 AM
Nonapod said...: At least he didn't suffer a mysterious bout of polonium poisoning.; 3/25/13, 9:09 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/25/13, 9:22 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: Looks like the Russians have a new secret weapon that compels people to make bad decisions.

It must be aimed at Washington.; 3/25/13, 9:26 AM
Tim said...: From the article...

"He had lived large for so long, it seemed, he did not know how to live small."

That is so true for so many.

Starting with governments.

Our own, for starters.

And, similarly, I suspect life after the White House will be harder for Michelle than for Barack.; 3/25/13, 9:37 AM
AllenS said...: Wait until Russia develops the drone.; 3/25/13, 9:41 AM
Emil Blatz said...: One day you got yer shit, the next day you don't. Riding high in April, shot down in May...; 3/25/13, 9:52 AM
edutcher said...: The name McDougal ring a bell?; 3/25/13, 9:58 AM
Oso Negro said...: No tears for oligarchs.; 3/25/13, 10:40 AM
Bart said...: Nonapod,
I believe that it was some of his employees/associates that were the target of the polonium. As far as I know the Brits still do not know how the polonium entered their country. That is one F'ed up deal. I mean if it was an ice pick to the head or an poisonied pellet from an umbrella I could make the connections.; 3/25/13, 11:15 AM
Bart said...: Nonapod,
I believe that it was some of his employees/associates that were the target of the polonium. As far as I know the Brits still do not know how the polonium entered their country. That is one F'ed up deal. I mean if it was an ice pick to the head or an poisonied pellet from an umbrella I could make the connections.; 3/25/13, 11:16 AM
Cedarford said...: Can't feel bad for the poor Oligarchs, that used crony capitalist connections with the Yeltsin Regime, aided by international financiers, to plunder the accumulated wealth workers in Russia and the breakaway nations had created.

One of the most popular things about
'early Putin', was him saying this robbery would not stand - and he went after recovering parts of the Oligarch's ill-gained 100s of millions to 10s of billions fortunes.
And he did.
Unfortunately the Putin Gang once firmly in power, grew more and more corrupt themselves, and it became less about recovering stolen assets and more about how the old KGB crowd could use those assets themselves. Boris Yeltsin the Hereafter is no doubt smiling in a drunken stupor at events.

Of course, Americans aren't smiling that much because we are in a period, going back to maybe the Carter Administration, where Elites have steered elected Presidents and Congressional leaders to poke the American worker in the ass as bad as the Czars, Soviets, and Corruptokranzny of post Soviet Russia (and liberated workers paradises like Belarus as well) have done.; 3/25/13, 11:21 AM
Cedarford said...: Can't feel bad for the poor Oligarchs, that used crony capitalist connections with the Yeltsin Regime, aided by international financiers, to plunder the accumulated wealth workers in Russia and the breakaway nations had created.

One of the most popular things about
'early Putin', was him saying this robbery would not stand - and he went after recovering parts of the Oligarch's ill-gained 100s of millions to 10s of billions fortunes.
And he did.
Unfortunately the Putin Gang once firmly in power, grew more and more corrupt themselves, and it became less about recovering stolen assets and more about how the old KGB crowd could use those assets themselves. Boris Yeltsin the Hereafter is no doubt smiling in a drunken stupor at events.

Of course, Americans aren't smiling that much because we are in a period, going back to maybe the Carter Administration, where Elites have steered elected Presidents and Congressional leaders to poke the American worker in the ass as bad as the Czars, Soviets, and Corruptokranzny of post Soviet Russia (and liberated workers paradises like Belarus as well) have done.; 3/25/13, 11:22 AM