"Vladimir S. Milov......[T]hese guys have benefited and made their fortunes through deals which involved state-controlled companies... operating under... direct control of government and the president... [C]ose friends of Putin... of relatively moderate means before Putin came to power all of a sudden turned out to be billionaires. ...[A]t the same time ...income disparity in Russia had never been worse, with the superrich doubling their wealth and the bottom fifth of the population in 2011 making only 55 percent of ...1991 earnings ...despite Putin’s electoral claims that his rule had brought prosperity ..."
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Ref: 1) , as quoted by Andrew E. Kramer, David M. Herszenhorn, "Midas Touch in St. Petersburg: Friends of Putin Glow Brightly." The New York Times (March 1, 2012) 2) Tom Parfitt, "Russia’s Rich Double Their Wealth, but Poor Were Better Off in the 1990s" Guardian (Apr 11, 2011)
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Karen Dawisha
(December 2, 1949 – April 11, 2018) the daughter of a school teacher and a jazz musician, was an American political scientist and writer. She was a professor in the Department of Political Science at in , and the director of .
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