| E. Migrant |
3 oktober 2014 11:14 |
Op wikipedia vinden we wat hun herkomst betreft niet veel meer dan dit:
A Russian oligarch is a near-synonym of the term "business oligarch" or "business magnate," borrowed by the English speaking and western media from Russian parlance to describe the huge, fast-acquired wealth of some businessmen of the former Soviet republics (mostly Russia and Ukraine) during privatization in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Businessmen with great wealth from these countries were commonly labeled (simply) "oligarchs" in Russian regardless of whether they had real political power, as the term "oligarch" would imply. Analysts have drawn comparison between the current Russian system of oligarchs, and the system of powerful Boyars that had emerged in late-Medieval Muscovy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarch
"Businessmen" , dat is al waar we het mee moeten doen. Iemand die wat meer diepgaande informatie over deze businessmen uit het late sovjettijdperk heeft? Gingen hun wortels tot dieper in de geschiedenis (Breznjev, Chroetsjov, Stalin, Lenin) of zijn ze pas in de jaren '70-'80 beginnen ontstaan? |
