Thread: Russian Oligarchs

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We are awaken, but confused. Putin in fact is on good terms with oligarchs, and any person who does not concede with social injustice publicly, is immediately discredited ("сам он ворюга!")

It is funny how Yeltsin first passed oil, metals, power plants etc to future oligarchs, and then the state bought some property back. But the state by itself does not produce money! So it is excellent procedure to give hundred billions to oligarchs infinitely. Though, highest rank managers of state-owned companies, BTW, have now revenues not less than Ходорковские, Гусинские and others had.
People, who are "honestly rich" are just talented businessmen. One man who managed to sell for example German autos in Moscow, in few months is selling them over whole Russia. Of course, he must be prepared to eliminate possible rivals.
Another man, who was first to deliver furs from Greece to Omsk, had an intention to be the main seller in the next 100 years. Most probably, his business will be taken over by larger company of Moscow in few months.
Water to my flat is supplied by Moscow company (one man collect money from millions), I buy electricity from S.-Petersburg company (another man from other side of the globe), and most good plots of land in Siberian city are somehow "eternally rented" by businessmen from Moscow (our city authorities usually don't want do anything, but even if they wanted, they simply cannot).
This is what I call globalization!
Such artful project was devised by another nice-looking man
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%...%D0%90._%D0%91.
who explained, that property should be in hands of those who knows how to utilize it. You will be very wealthy people soon, - he predicted, - only let's give our industry, transport, and everything else to effective proprietors.
The outcome was somehow predictable: effective proprietors started to sell things to each other and to foreign businesses and build villas all over the Mediterranean.

Interesting facts:
Old soviet directors of giant refineries tended to swim not in Aegean sea, but in cold dirt waters of Irtysh, where normal person would not be able even to approach the river.
Лицкевич, Иван Дмитриевич — Википедия

Meanwhile in USSR times:
You could not bequeath your flat in USSR, because you had not bought it , but "получал" instead (from State). Relatives (children usually) usually could continue to live in the same flat, if they were living there before death of "main inhabitant" (были прописаны).
And conversely, people were buying cars, so could pass them to relatives (I think so, don't remember exactly).

Березовский, Борис Абрамович — Википедия
Владимир Александрович Гусинский биография медиа-магната

Originally Posted by maxmixiv

, Interesting facts:
Old soviet directors of giant refineries tended to swim not in Aegean sea, but in cold dirt waters of Irtysh, where normal person would not be able even to approach the river.

out of interest, why would a normal person not be able to even approach the river?