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7 de jun. de 2024 · Russian oligarchs, tycoons who reaped enormous fortunes in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. When the centrally planned economy of the then-Soviet Union crashed, a group of quick-thinking men picked up the pieces and turned them into vast private wealth.
3 de jun. de 2024 · After the provincial world of Russian art had finally caught up with developments in Western Europe by the eve of the First World War, it was Malevich and Tatlin above all who pushed forward with the artistic revolution that had been underway since the time of the Impressionists.
Hace 4 días · This is a list of Russian artists. In this context, the term "Russian" covers the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities living in Russia.
18 de jun. de 2024 · Tbilisi, Georgia —. On top of a steep hill overlooking Tbilisi, tucked behind the city’s ancient fortress, sits a sprawling, futuristic $50 million mansion that locals call “the glass palace ...
18 de jun. de 2024 · Investment tenders were followed by an even more infamous "give-away" of Russian state assets to select business elites—the loans-for-shares program, which introduced the term "oligarch" to describe the handful of beneficiaries.
16 de jun. de 2024 · March 11, 2022 - Foreign governments around the world are seizing the assets of many Russian oligarchs in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hace 3 días · The emergence of this group, commonly referred to as the Russian oligarchs, is part of the story of the Russian post-Soviet economic reforms described in Goldman's new book, The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry.
