Knock Out: Putin vs. oligarchs

In the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR – a number of individuals decided that that which once belonged to all of Russians, they could take for themselves alone. Whatever they called it - free market, venture capitalism or privatisation – ordinary people called it theft and opportunism. The oligarch parasites not only obtained that which wasn’t theirs, for pennies, they also attempted to sell state enterprises as well as state secrets (in the military sphere) to foreign powers. Khodorkovsky famously e