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Old 08-06-2018, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
That was ~15 years ago. In the meantime, he has pillaged the Russian state of much of its wealth and has become the richest guy in the world, richer than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos combined.
Browder is engaging in hyperbolic propaganda.

If Vlad forced the Oligarchs "to hand over large chunk of their holdings to him" he would not survive for two seconds.

Vlad inherited the Oligarch System and is first and foremost a nationalist. If he abuses the system to 'Browder' extent he would put his country at risk. What he has done over time is fine tune the system so that more of it serves the state.

Some thoughts from Bershidsky re pronouncement of Ellis.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...judge-is-right

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