Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
They didn't need any 1 mil Euro. And as you know, the Euro didn't exist back then. They would have used Dollars or D Mark. But nowhere near that. If you really want to know about this, some of the oligarchs have actually written memoirs. I assume they explain some of this. Boris Berezovsky for example, wrote a memoir, I think. I haven't read it, but I've seen interviews with him.

They bought entire factories and mines for much less than that!
The most valuable property was sneaked away from the state via Залоговые аукционы.

the government should confiscate everything.
Russians should wake up!
Funny like a bank employee from Europe suggests to confiscate while european leaders call Putin a dictator for trying to do just the same. Look like Khodorkovsky bieng a biggest crook in modern russian history magically turned from bloody oligarch into a political prisoner and freedom fighter.

That's not that easy, my friend.

How can this happens from the time the economy of Russia is now in a severe crisis (the GDP growth is less than 2%)?
I think that Russia has one of the worst economic systems and more socially unfair from all the industrial countries.
I wish this "crisis" and unfairness would last as long as possible.