[NOW here's an interesting comment found in
article in The Economist, "The making of a neo-KGB
state"]:
August 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.