I would urge readers to refrain from the kneejerk reaction 'it's happening all over now'. What is happening in the Western world (rise of inequality due to skills being prized higher owing to technological change) is very different to what happened in Russia.
There a band of people connected to the government (first it was party apparatchiks, then friends of Putin) plundered resources owned by the state. And almost all of them have to do with stuff being pulled out of the ground.
There a band of people connected to the government (first it was party apparatchiks, then friends of Putin) plundered resources owned by the state. And almost all of them have to do with stuff being pulled out of the ground.