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Russia: The bloody struggle of the oligarchs for more wealth

Russia: The bloody struggle of the oligarchs for more wealth

In the shadow of the war against Ukraine, a new struggle over the distribution of wealth is raging in Russia. Not for the first time in the country’s history.

Bernd Ziesemer

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On Christmas Eve, the Russian media reported the last mysterious death for the time being, which joins a long list of similar incidents in the past year. Alexander Busakov, director general of the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg, died “before his time” and under “tragic” circumstances, officials said. Before him, a dozen other prominent business people died – a striking number of them from the defense industry.

As is so often the case in Vladimir Putin’s empire, we will probably never know the true course of events. But much speaks for the same background in most of these cases: In Russia, a new bloody struggle for the distribution of enormous wealth is raging.

Source: Stern

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