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If They Were Russians, We’d Call Them Oligarchs

In the West, they’re called billionaires and we just love them

Nicolas Carteron
2 min readSep 18, 2020

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According to Wikipedia, an oligarch is “a business magnate who controls sufficient resources to influence national politics.”

Instead of quoting the rest of this short but enlightening article, I’ll just share a screenshot.

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Nicolas Carteron

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