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Oligarchs

Russia's oligarchs got rich in the chaotic business world of post-communist Russia, and continued to grow richer as oil prices, and the Moscow stock markets, rose in the boom years which followed. Then the global financial crisis reached Russia and its oligarchs got a shock.

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Mon 31 Aug 2009 04:40GMT

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  • Mon 31 Aug 2009 04:40GMT

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project