. [images and captions added by this website] [NOW here’s an interesting comment found in article in The Economist, “The making of a neo-KGB state”]: The EconomistAugust 25th-31st 2007, page 26THE KGB was cut off from the post-Soviet redistribution of assets. Worse still, it was upstaged and outwitted by a tiny group of opportunists, many of them Jews (not a people beloved by the KGB), who became known as the oligarchs.
Between them, they grabbed most of the country’s natural resources and other privatised assets. KGB officers watched the oligarchs get super-rich while they stayed cash-strapped and sometimes even unpaid. … on the, ahem, oligarchs