Sentences with phrase «by oligarchs»

Durov and his brother Nikolai Durov, a mathematical genius, were behind the creation of VK, «Russia's Facebook», worth an estimated $ 3 billion, but were effectively forced to sell their stake in the company by oligarch shareholders deeply connected to the Putin - led government.
Durov and his brother Nikolai Durov, a mathematical genius, were behind the creation of VK, «Russia's Facebook», worth an estimated $ 3 billion, but were effectively forced to sell their stake in the company by oligarch shareholders deeply connected to the Putin - led government.
Way ahead of its time, PM fought against income inequality, racist violence, Republican demagoguery, political corruption funded by oligarchs, foreign ideologies seeking world domination.
So we need a tax system that not only is going to stop the tax evasion by the oligarchs who have used the banks to avoid it.
Other organised protesters who've received the BBC blessing of warm approval recently, accompanied by woolly reporting about who they are, are the Russian protesters who apparently would like to be governed by oligarchs and the Socialist Workers Party activist who confronted Andrew Landsley for the cameras.
We are still waiting for the moment the international art press will shift its attention from Rama's wallpaper and doodles to the actual «political canvas» this man has been painting in Albania, which has included landscapes of weed plantations, concrete - covered archeological treasures, natural reserves exploited by oligarchs for enormous profits, and a stunning portrait of a collapsing political system.»
But it's not just one election here or there; the state of things is the result of decades of strategic, well - funded work by the oligarchs running things now — see Jane Mayer's «Dark Money» for the sad and dirty details.
In an undemocratic rolling Oligarchy, the ideal is a ruling unelected government, over the people, for the Oligarchs, by the Oligarchs.
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