The Oligarchs who destroyed Russia

Video begins at 1:55. In the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR – a number of individuals decided that that which once belonged to all, they could take for themselves. Whatever they called it - free market, venture capitalism or privatisation – ordinary people called it theft and opportunism. The early oligarchs not only obtained that which wasn’t theirs for pennies, they also attempted to sell state enterprises as well as state secrets (in the military sphere) others. Khodorkovsky famously left the co