Jun 22, 2023
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"Anne Williamson and the Rape of Russia"
As NPR writer Greg Rosalsky writes:
In the summer of 2000, 21 of the richest men in Russia exited their bulletproof limousines and entered the Kremlin for a historic meeting. In the previous decade, these men had risen seemingly out of nowhere, amassing spectacular fortunes as the country around them descended into chaos. Through shady deals, outright corruption, and even murder, these rapacious “oligarchs” — as Russians had come to derisively call them — had seized control of much of Russia’s economy, and, increasingly, its fledgling democracy.
But now, their nation’s newly elected president, Vladimir Putin, wanted to tell them, face to face, who was really in charge.
