Putin consolidating control
October 20, 2008 at 07:32 AM EDT
[Skip to the end] As suspected: Putin may Use Credit Squeeze to ‘Destroy’ Oligarchs (Update1) By Torrey Clark and Henry Meyer Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) — Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 vowing to destroy Russia’s oligarchs “as a class.” Within two years, he’d driven two into exile and imprisoned another. Now, he may use the global markets meltdown to [...]
