Russian oligarchs
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Russian oligarchs are business oligarchs from the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s through the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Unio
Putin (left), with Mikhail Khodorkovsky (right) in December 2002. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was jailed the following year.
Gennady Timchenko and Arkady Rotenberg in 2015
Putin (left) with Oleg Deripaska (right) in the Kremlin in March 2002
Putin (left), with Petr Fradkov (right) in the Kremlin in May 2019
Roman Abramovich
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Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian business oligarch and politician. He is the former owner of Chelsea, a Premier League football club in London. He has Russian, Portuguese and Israeli citizens
Russian oligarchs
…Yeltsin (1991–1999), a period often referred to as the wild nineties; they helped finance his re-election in 1996. Well-connected oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Potanin acquired key assets at a fraction of their value at the loans for shares scheme auctions…
Abramovich at Stamford Bridge during a 4–0 victory over Portsmouth in August 2008
Abramovich watches his team, Chelsea, play against Leicester City in August 2014
Abramovich at the 2019 UEFA Europa League Final
Abramovich at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany