Sentences with phrase «from oligarchs»

And those who benefit range from oligarchs like Khodokorvsky to the Chinese to the neocon establishment and the Saudi Royal radical faction (the ones who finance jihad).

Just as Bernie Sanders believes that the middle class in our country is in jeopardy from the oligarchs, likewise oligarchs such as Bill Gates, Bill Walton, Michael Bloomberg, to name a few of the corporate education oligarch reformers, are threatening to change and destroy public education in the nation by replacing public schools with charter schools.

This will impose the pressure on the Russian government from oligarchs who have settled in the West, whose property is in the West, whose children study in Western universities, and sometimes even barely speak Russian because for all their life they have lived in the West.

What changed was Putin's decision to consolidate power and not allow political challenges from the oligarchs.

-1: Putin started take power away from oligarchs since his early days as country leader, in early 2000's.

Others, however, such as angel investor and entrepreneur Naval Ravikant, have praised cryptocurrency as a means of escaping the oppression «from oligarchs and tyrants.»

(Sechin has been the power behind Putin's throne ever since he orchestrated the Russian government's seizure of Yukos from the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky 13 years ago.)

Tillerson's predecessor, Lee Raymond, tried to buy Russia's most profitable oil company Yukos from the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had gained control of it during the highly corrupt privatizations under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.

«Cannibal couple made human meat PIES and supplied them to local restaurants after luring female victims on Russian dating sites» «Cannibal family» from The oligarch's press secretary denies rumors of acquiring the restaurant for $ million.

2018-04-08 17:19 «Cannibal couple made human meat PIES and supplied them to local restaurants after luring female victims on Russian dating sites» «Cannibal family» from The oligarch's press secretary denies rumors of acquiring the restaurant for $ million.

That case is, of course, Dmitiry Rybolovlev's long - running vendetta against Yves Bouvier, the intermediary in Rybolovlev's art transactions who benefitted enormously from the Oligarch's overly - trusting nature.

Not exact matches

God save us from the American oligarchs.»

In return for this effort, the dossier says, Putin wanted information from Trump on Russian oligarchs living in the US, Source E said.

Russian stocks edged higher as they shrugged off the risk of possible new sanctions from a newly published U.S. list of oligarchs close to the Kremlin.

ZURICH, April 12 - Switzerland's Sulzer has used a share buyback to free itself from U.S. sanctions, highlighting a potential escape route for other companies controlled by Russian oligarchs targeted in Washington's crackdown on President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.

Similarily, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a release, «Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities.»

The U.S. Treasury handed down the penalties on seven Russian oligarchs, 12 businesses and 17 Russian government officials, in response to what it described as their involvement in Russia's «malign» activities, ranging from military involvement in Ukraine and Syria to cyber crimes and alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

Rothschild sought damages from the British paper after it accused him of acting as a «puppet master» for his role in bringing the former EU trade commissioner with him on a Siberian trip to visit a Russian oligarch.

Vladimir Putin's circle of corrupt oligarchs gouge whatever money they can from the impoverished Russian economy and move it to bank accounts overseas.

The Russian oligarch plans to reduce his stake in power and aluminium group En + below 50 pct, after heat from U.S. sanctions.

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.

What about a Curt Flood card from 1970, when he was traded to the Phillies but never reported, sitting the year out rather than be an indentured servant in the money - printing mill of an oligarch?

Money comes from oil tycoons, oligarchs, kleptocrats.

Agreed... if the league can prevent Chris Paul from going to the Lakers and force Sterling to sell the Clippers, they should have been able to stop the Russian oligarch from mortgaging his team's future for three past their prime stars.

Now this, I think, is where many of the club's detractors, and of course Wenger's too, simply overlook a simple and obvious fact — the majority of the top clubs, and some of those in the second tier, from whom we want to buy relevant top players, are owned by incredibly rich men, known as oligarchs for a good reason, or bottomless money pits, known as state - owned clubs, and we all know who they are, simply do not need the money, however much is offered.

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.

Putin's decision to stop the oligarchs from funding political opposition rather than stopping them from stealing was the mistake that caused all the other ills.

Indeed, the majority of pieces from the Kiev exhibition were sold to a prominent Ukrainian oligarch.

But the government in Kiev needs meaningful help from Brussels to restructure its debts, to prevent oligarchs from washing money in Western banks, to protect poor citizens from the harsh implications of reforms, and to enhance the rule of law and institutions of civil society.

I'm reading on oligarchs, and came across this on Wikipedia (from the fourth paragraph): The study [conceded] «Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular...

The row over George Osborne's chats with an impossibly rich Russian oligarch was sparked by a letter from one his university friends, introducing a weirdly personal element to a fiercely political story.

Its owner is Alexander Lebedev, a Russian oligarch estimated to be the 358th richest person in the world and hardly likely to be a champion of candidates from the egalitarian and redistributive wing of the Party.

More seriously, the Brand / Ross statement came just 24 hours after the Prime Minister's latest defence of Peter Mandelson's friendship with the Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a man banned from entry to the United States, who made his money from Russia's aptly named «aluminium wars».

Ukip voters» disaffection from the mainstream parties, fuelled by cynical newspapers owned by tax - averse oligarchs, is incoherent too.

But openDemocracy has now discovered that Cambridge Analytica's establishment links run even deeper, leading to one of the most senior figures in Northern Irish unionism — a PR man who has represented everyone from British Airways to Russian oligarchs — and raising questions once more about who gave the DUP a secretive # 435,000 donation for its Brexit campaign.

For the first time, I think, Katniss and Peeta finally realize how radically different their lives are from the greedy oligarchs in power who run the government.

Alfonso finds four books that seem to suggest pretty plainly that Prarie made up her entire story, from her beginnings as the daughter of a Russian oligarch to Homer's entire existence.

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?

Many have forgotten, but trade publishing was perhaps one Russian oligarch away from its own car crash.

Set twenty years in the future in the once - all - powerful oligarch's ninth decade, the story is a dark tale of Alzheimer's disease, where any decent humanity comes, not from a titan whose neural networks are collapsing, but rather from Sheremetev, a private nurse and the lone person caring for Vladimir P. while he's secreted in his palatial dacha outside Moscow.

Russian Oligarchs bought PlasticLogic and used it to steal millions of dollars from Russian Taxpayer, there is a huge scandal in Russia regarding Rusnano, and shady investments....

Last night, word came out that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, had received $ 500,000 in payments from a U.S. investment firm connected to a Russian oligarch named Viktor Vekselberg.

The art on sale will range from the generally affordable to works even oligarchs might find steep.

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.»

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The combination of Maurice Strong, Rothschild family, and George Soros spells international statist cabal that is determined to control the global economy apparently with support from Chinese oligarchs.

Arguing about it with a catastrophist just distracts us all from the main struggle, the defeat of the anti-democrats and techno - oligarchs.

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..»

That's because our once great country is controlled by greed crazed oligarchs, many of whom have grown to love the dividends and appreciation from oil and coal company stocks.

Along with interviews and profiles — from citizen - activists to oligarchs — we will publish photo - essays that explicate the toll of climate change on developing countries alongside infographics and key statistics about climate developments, and about public opinion.