Sentences with phrase «oligarch who»

Advising a Russian oligarch who had commenced claims against a range of persons and entities in order to recover sums in excess of $ 1.5 billion.

That they're willing to welcome Hamilton back suggests nothing like that was really happening, and he was available because of a public temper tantrum of an oligarch who is used to getting his way.

Russian art - collecting oligarch who is considering a purchase of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, just because he can

The evil oligarchs who really run the town decided to consolidate the two football teams (of the two high schools) into one incredibly well - funded and talent - laden team.

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.

«Cuomo and Klein returning the money of oligarchs who compare respected African - American leaders to the K.K.K. would be a start.»

The weakening of the public system was predicated on the strategic reduction and subversion of the institutional means by which the state exerted control, and reduced the plural autarchies that have now increasingly assumed the power of the state: the oligarchs who now own everything that once belonged to the state and the commonwealth through «privatization.»

There is a prudent way to handle encounters with Russian oligarchs who have a huge financial interest in changing trade rules to favour them.

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.

Russian collector Roman Abramovich is among the 220 people named in the U.S. Treasury's «Kremlin Report,» which lists senior political figures and oligarchs who play significant roles in Russia's economy.

But that is just making my point for me: all the benefit of that goes to the oligarchs who elected him, not regular Joes and Janes who just wanted their lives to go a bit better.

Putin survives today because oligarchs who control resources and production, says he can lead as long as he leaves their monopolies alone.

The Oligarchs who are running the systems must be dealt with.

Not exact matches

Other deep - pocketed owners include the United Arab Emirates» Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who owns Manchester City, and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea Football Club.

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.

The U.S. Treasury Department would like you to know who the Russian «oligarchs» are, and has published a list to that effect.

The so - called «oligarch», who potentially lost $ 4.56 billion in just the first four trading days after U.S. sanctions were introduced, has also built a ski resort and hotel nearby, according to reports in Russian media.

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.»

Those who are today 20 or 30 are today planning how they will live afterward,» said the oligarch - turned - dissident, who spent a decade in prison seen as punishment for his political ambitions.

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.

My point is after this long winded history lesson is that while we blame the manager, the players and even each other, the real culprits are the moneyed toffee - nosed shadowy men up in the wood panelled board room who sacked Dave Dein, simply because he wanted to bring in an Oligarch.

I have never said that I was condoning fighting between Arsenal fans, I was just pointing a fact of history.Most of change come by fighting and blood due to the foolishness of men who are unable to use their brain.The oligarch create this situation and watch laughing until it get to them and they stop laughing.

But the oligarch most closely associated with the Games is Vladimir Potanin, who so loves skiing that he reportedly had a slope built within his $ 11 million Moscow villa.

To fulfill his pledges to the IOC, Putin has, as Nowak says, enlisted Russia's oligarchs, the opportunists who became billionaires during the collapse of the Soviet Union by taking over vast amounts of oil, gas and metals, reportedly gaining control of some 40 % of the country's GDP.

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.

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?

The move follows a stampede to buy up valuable real estate, especially in central London, by Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern businessmen and other investors who see the capital as a safe haven for their money.

Today, CNN reports Mueller's team questioned Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg who heads an asset management company called the Renova Group.

In many instances their «nuances» in fact reflect this assumption that otherwise their positions will get them in trouble with the right wing press oligarchs, or corporations who might bugger off.

Retired pensioners who bought their homes for a tiny fraction of what they cost now, will be forced to sell up, only to be replaced by exactly the bankers and oligarchs the policy is supposed to attack.

Crony capitalism is the means by which those who seize the power of the state use it to distribute the wealth of the state to a few oligarchs, mostly their friends, members of their families, or lovers — basically a narrow population — to control and dominate state wealth for the maintenance of the idea of private property.

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».

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.

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.

The guest of honor was Stephanie who wore a flowing white dress and the Oligarch Coin Statement Necklace.

The 34 - year - old star of Paris fashion week, who counts Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Natalia Vodianova, and Dita Von Teese among her customers, married the Russian oligarch in 2008.

The action centers on an English couple (Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris) vacationing in Spain who become caught up in the machinations of a Russian oligarch (Stellan Skarsgard) planning to defect.

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.

Although we'll never see the final product which featured Spacey, Scott lucked out with Plummer, who is more age appropriate as Getty, and who nails the aura of a frugal oligarch whose withered contempt for humanity has resulted in extreme isolation and abject selfishness.

Directed by Eric Rochant, the thriller takes place in Monte Carlo in the world of high finance and stars last year's Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin as an experienced spy who is tracking a powerful oligarch suspected of laundering money through his bank.

Public schools have been destroyed and the money is now funnelled to the plutocrats who worship and supply the oligarchs.

The Mexican Revolution got its start during the rule of Porfirio Diaz, a dictator who perpetuated a feudal system in the country with just a few wealthy oligarchs owning and operating much of Mexico's assets and the rest toiling away for crumbs.

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.

AB: There is no prize for the highest population — except for the oligarchs whose income is based on the number of peons...... and who make up your minds for you.

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).

That's why Hillary Clinton told German bankers in 2013 that U.S. energy development is «up against» Russian «oligarchs» who are funding «phony environmental groups.»

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 claimant in my case wasn't a Russian oligarch, an A-list celebrity or an Arab billionaire (groups who seem to issue writs like they are going out of fashion) but a seemingly innocuous super-wealthy self - styled «holy man» from the Punjab (a state in Northern India) who is reported never to have stepped foot in Britain nor apparently reads, writes or speaks any English.

Apr. 6, 2018: Great fanfare surrounds the list of newly sanctioned Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska, who is Manafort's former business associate.