Sentences with phrase «powerful oligarch»

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.

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.

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He said a recent name - and - shame U.S. list of rich and powerful Russians means the oligarchs now face a life - changing choice.

Taras Demidov, an expert in extortion and execution in the pay of the oligarchs running the former Soviet Union, is also waiting in the shadows, determined to intercept a fearsomely powerful arms dealer with the money, weaponry, and connections to alter the geopolitical balance.

Two fascinating stories published this month provide two very different perspectives on the clashes between once - powerful Russian oligarchs and a Russian legal system that many believe to be incurably corrupt.