The Japan TimesSep 2, 2023
The newly sanctioned oligarchs Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman were textbook capitalists and agents of change in the decades following the Soviet Union’s collapse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2023/08/24/world/russian-oligarchs-economy/?utm_content=bufferc0ba5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #commentary #worldnews #russia #russiaukrainewar #russianeconomy #sovietunion #alfagroup #mikhailfridman #petraven
Sympathy for the oligarch

As private actors sought to navigate the collapse of the Soviet economy, they ended up shaping it into something far more functional and prosperous.

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