Russia

How The Russian Oligarchs Started — By Stealing From The Russian People

The privatisation scheme was riven with problems which the West contributed to

Russian privatisation voucher, 1992. Credit: By Гознак — Transferred from ru.wikipedia to Commons by DonRumata, Public Domain,

I worked in Russia and Kazakstan for a few years in the early 1990s. It was a time when Russian state enterprises were being privatised, a time when the first oligarchs emerged…