Send by New Zealand Herald

The joint venture between the Russian and French state railways hopes that oil oligarchs who need to get from Moscow to the Cote d'Azur but don't fancy [...]

Send by RIA Novosti

Marc Bennetts' weekly column, Deeper Than Oil, Richer Than Oligarchs, goes beyond the headlines to explore the hidden sides of the world's largest, [...]

Send by The Day Weekly Digest

Russian oligarchs knowingly shared their power with the law enforcement agencies, clandestine organizations, and the military. They resolved the Chechnya [...]

Send by Los Angeles Times

the biggest of the Russian oligarchs, Mikhail Khodorkovsky in prison, slashing income taxes, and publicly embracing victims of this summer's wildfires. [...]

Send by Hindustan Times

The Russian oligarchs and Eurotrash millionaires (and Elton John who was in Porto Cervo this summer) have all departed, the dreadful clubs (Billionaire etc. [...]

Send by Channel 4 News

Le Carré's new book features Russian oligarchs, money laundering and compromised British politicians. In researching his latest book, Mr le Carré said he [...]

18 Aug 2010 Vladimir Putin, President Medvedev and Prime Minister Berlusconi and Russian oligarchs are going to the Mediterranean coast and other Italy [...]

17 Aug 2010 President Dmitry Medvedev has summoned Russia's oligarchs to a meeting to ask for help to rebuild villages destroyed by fierce wildfires. [...]

27 Apr 2010 Wealthy Russians are preparing to leave Britain or remove their money from the City of London because of Labour's high tax policies, [...]

8 Jul 2010 For Alexander Lebedev , hardly a week goes by without a call from a crooked security-services agent or cop angling for a chunk of his $3.4 [...]

A The undisputed oligarch of oligarchs, Roman Abramovich, the 39-year-old owner of Chelsea Football Club, is Russia's richest citizen with an estimated [...]

23 May 2010 Namely, we hear that some Russian oligarchs feel that, if they become highly visible owners of beloved sports franchises, the Kremlin will [...]

15 Feb 2010 Former coalmine mechanic Vladimir Lisin has been named Russia's richest man, as the country's 77 billionaires show they have bounced back [...]

Send by myglesias

“Discuss how Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers helped Russian oligarchs Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Fridman , and Vladimir Gusinsky steal everything not nailed down in Russia [...]

Send by Jon Snow

I agree with Meg Howarth,that perhaps the real coup was the moment when Le Carre suggested strong links between the Russian oligarchs' finance and the two houses of parliament. There was also a wonderful phrase from him regarding the [...]

Send by KGS

One of the passports belonged to a volunteer with Irish charity To Russia With Love named as Kathryn Sherry and two others to a married couple in Co Donegal. All had all been granted visas at the Russian Embassy in Dublin. [...]

Send by rss.feedsportal.com

The Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza recently published an article by Lilia Shevtsova about Putin’s “useful idiots”. This is how she refers to the participants of the Valdai Club, where Russian officials and political scientists from around the world gather to discuss Russian issues. She also criticizes the Russia-U.S. “reset” policy and Russia-EU cooperation on modernization. She even [...]

Send by Joe

In 2003, Dudley became CEO of TNK-BP, BP's joint venture in Russia along with Russian company AAR, a group of four Russian billionaire oligarchs. Over the years, tensions mounted between BP and the oligarchs. According to news reports [...]

However, Putin began to "show his teeth" (a Russian expression) and took control of the Kremlin. He gave the oligarchs a choice to stand with him or stand against him. Some chose to side with Putin while others did not. [...]

Send by Elle Pedersen

In any case, there is still a morbid fascination for the high-society zillionaires. Rich and powerful women in Russia are almost always supported by their exceedingly wealthy men - the Russian oligarchs. [...]

Send by Vivek Wadhwa

Given my scathing criticism, I had expected the Russian Federation to declare me persona non grata. Instead, I got an urgent call from Ellis Rubinstein, president of the New York Academy of Sciences. He said that the Honorable Ilya [...]

Send by Miriam

Miriam Vaswani: lives beside a chocolate factory in Moscow this year, writes fiction and everything else, teaches English to oligarchs and speaks Russian very badly. Still dodges bullets, collects vintage knickers, pines for several [...]

Send by [email protected] (Mark)

Why Russian Oligarchs Buy Sports Teams. I've heard plenty of reasons, and no doubt you've thought of few yourself, as to why Russian billionaires have taken to buying professional sports franchises in western sports leagues, [...]

The Adriatic Riviera in the north, the elite Emerald Coast in Sardinia and the Amalfitan villages of Positano and Sorrento have transformed into settlements of Russian oligarchs who spend months in fashionable hotels, rent summer villas [...]

The Russian oligarchs rose to prominence during the mid-90s when they became owners of some of the country's big oil and mineral resources companies [...]