https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/power/Recent content in Power on MoscowMigrantHugoenTue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/putin-owns-everything-the-kleptocracy-where-oligarchs-are-only-nominees/Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/putin-owns-everything-the-kleptocracy-where-oligarchs-are-only-nominees/Tsarist Russia respected private property; Putin's Russia does not. Under him the ruler effectively owns everything — all the major wealth, assets and resources — and the famous billionaires are merely conditional, temporary nominees who would surrender their yachts, palaces and billions the instant he demanded them back. Oligarch money is therefore not wealth but delegated power, which is the real architecture of the regime.