Phoenix68
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"Business and wealth are always connected to politics. But the link is rarely so explicitly on display. So we contacted David Hoffman, an expert on another country where very wealthy men grew very close to the state: Russia.
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Oligarchy means rule by the few, and the word "oligarchs" entered Russia's popular discourse beginning in the 1990s. Hoffman lived in Moscow as a journalist then and later wrote a book called The Oligarchs. He described a Russian oligarchy that developed in stages."
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Oligarchy means rule by the few, and the word "oligarchs" entered Russia's popular discourse beginning in the 1990s. Hoffman lived in Moscow as a journalist then and later wrote a book called The Oligarchs. He described a Russian oligarchy that developed in stages."
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