Sentences with phrase «oligarchs at»

Another of Anderson's paintings, Oligarchs at an Olive Garden, contains a number of pink fleshy masses and shoes, all done in a lumpy cartoon style that surely references the paintings of Philip Guston.

Scott Anderson, «Oligarchs at an Olive Garden,» 2016, oil and oil crayon on canvas, 60 inches by 66 inches.

He can't have domestic policy because he's an oligarch at the head of an oligarchical clan, and he's running a country which can't have the rule of law.

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Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

Russian labor still went unpaid as the oligarchs converted their roubles into dollars at the exchange rate subsidized by the IMF loans and investment inflows into GKO bills and stocks in the natural resource companies being privatized.

At the center of the investigation is former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who allegedly collected $ 60 million over a decade from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close Kremlin ties who was allegedly offered «private briefings» about the campaign.

This is all about destroying governments and giving the oligarchs complete control at last.

But these people are neither oligarchs or simply the mindless dupes of oligarchs and often live at least as authentically as the life described in the Crunchy Con book.

The Sheikh and the Oligarch are in it for the glory of winning trophies at all cost.

If you accept that the plan of building the Emirates, allowing high - wage veterans to move on to stay solvent, and developing youth, and bringing in good - value signings has allowed the club to be competitive and at the top of the table while similar clubs, like Newcastle and Liverpool, have not been able to maintain their status as elite teams once the oligarchs arrived.

At the Maritime Terminal by the port, an oligarch can moor his yacht and, just steps away, pick up garish, pricey Olympic gear at the Bosco Shop, Russia's answer to NiketowAt the Maritime Terminal by the port, an oligarch can moor his yacht and, just steps away, pick up garish, pricey Olympic gear at the Bosco Shop, Russia's answer to Niketowat the Bosco Shop, Russia's answer to Niketown.

Soon after assuming the presidency at the end of 1999, Putin summoned leading oligarchs to the Kremlin and essentially told them they could keep their fortunes only if they foreswore politics and ponied up when their country needed them to.

Unless an oligarch or the worlds leading Camel trader take over at WHL nothing is going to happen over night.

We also aren't, so far, at the mercy of the whim of a single oligarch or dictator, and that means that we're existing and prospering on the basis of our own strength.

It'd be easy to say that I want a Russian oligarch or a Sheikh from the Middle East or whoever else with x amount of billion in the bank to buy my club but in truth, it'd be incredibly boring and I'd always be casting envious eyes over at clubs who are doing it «properly» so to speak.

At which the impatient oligarch Roman Abramovich dug in his heels.

Meanwhile, at Chelsea, all seems to be turbulence, with the billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich turning up at the club's Cobham training ground and invigilating his hapless young manager, Andre Villas - Boas, reportedly for hours.

Having paid close to # 18 million to break his ties with the Portuguese clan at Chelsea previously, would the Russian Oligarch be willing to part with another substantial sum to reunite himself with a man who many have referred to as the enemy of football?

Although Labour's manifesto only hinted at reforming British capitalism — with timid measures on property taxation and house - building, a rise in the minimum wage and attempts to tax super-wealthy London - based oligarchs — it did address some of the fundamental imbalances of the British economy.

'' if you can not prove you or your ancestors were already citizens of the Republic of Cyprus before the invasion then you can not get a passport at all» - except if you're a Russian oligarch.

«Winter's War» is hammily entertaining, but at points feels like a Russian oligarch has thrown a «Game of Thrones» party and bunged his favourite Hollywood actors a few million quid each to come in fancy dress.

They get drawn into the elaborate historical Holy Week festivities, in period costumes, at a castle owned by sleazy Russian oligarch Alexei (Jordi Molla).

Relatives at the coastal island redoubt of oligarch Jason Crockett (Ray Milland) fall victim to spiders, rattlesnakes, alligators, geckos, and monitor lizards, while the frogs squat behind the lines, croaking and (apparently) scheming.

Is it fair that the offspring of overseas oligarchs are directly benefiting from UK teacher training programmes at the expense of poor children in large parts of this country?

There is no rational reason for this system to be revived and there are oligarchs, and people at Goldman Sachs, and people in the US government and military that know this.

It would be about the slow convergence of many forces at work in our education system, including the shadowy world of deep pocketed oligarchs who leverage astonishing sums of money into even more astonishing influence regardless of the people's will.

Jim Crow was a localized form of state - sponsored oppression that was, at the time illegal based on federal law but allowed to continue by apathetic and politically expedient federal authorities under the guise of furthering a doctrine of «states rights»; the same euphemism for slavery the southern plantation owning oligarchs used to rationalize secession and trick the poor white southerners to fight a war and die in the millions.

But at the exhibition, it «really provoked a lot of thought and interest,» said Olesya Ostrovska - Lyuta, curator, art manager, and head of programs and projects of the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov's Foundation for Development of Ukraine.

This is a group that has been invited to show at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, do an installation and teach classes at the Russian oligarch - funded New Holland island in St. Petersburg, Russia, and create elaborate installations at the W Hotel in South Beach during art fair week (their opening was attended by billionaire collectors).

«It gives them a reason to use the jet,» Sam Orlofsky, a director at the Gagosian Gallery, said at a dinner Mr. Gagosian and his fellow hosts, Wendi Murdoch, the wife of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and Dasha Zhukova, daughter and partner of Russian oligarchs, held for 220 close friends at Mr. Chow, a restaurant in the W hotel on Collins Avenue.

Among those at the invitation - only opening on Tuesday were New York financiers like Donald B. Marron and Leon Black, the Miami collectors Donald and Mera Rubell and the Russian oligarch Roman A. Abramovich.

«Cuz the world's carbon - oligarchs value their carbon reserves at 100,000 billion dollars... and they'll do whatever it takes to preserve the value of their in - the - ground wealth.

On the same day that news of a half - million - dollar payment to Michael Cohen from Russian oligarchs was revealed, «AT&T Inc. said it made payments to Mr. Cohen's company in 2017 for «insights» into the administration at a time when the telecommunications giant needed government approval for an $ 85 billion takeover of Time Warner Inc..»

The biggest client of Columbus Nova is a company controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who was questioned at an airport this year by investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller.

«The Abramovich judgment means any potential claims targeted at high profile Russian «Oligarchs» in the English High Court must be carefully considered from a jurisdiction point of view before proceeding.

The Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg - based «troll farm» run by Yevgeny Prigozhin — a Russian oligarch and Putin confidant — has been accused of propagating most of the content aimed at US voters, including the 3,000 Facebook ads, which the House Intelligence Committee intends to release publicly this week.

In reverse order of your concerns, the CREA in - house revolving Oligarchy is directly responsible for pushing this deluded mentality forward at the behest of slick sales types pushing the latest techno - fobe gotta - keep - up - with - the - latest - internet - cheap - marketing - scheme, for «their» profitability of course, to the detriment of the folks who are levied to the tune of $ 20,000,000, soon to be $ 24,000,000, who naively pay the Oligarchs» way.

Sater and Bayrock founder Tevfik Arif had been hopscotching from Moscow to the Cote d'Azur hitting up oligarchs for investments in Trump - branded projects since 2004, according to a person who worked at Bayrock at the time.