Moscow's suburb for billionaires (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
BBC News, Moscow

Most people in Britain are now familiar with the scruffy, boyish and invariably unshaven features of Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, and Russia's most famous billionaire.

This week we learned that Mr Abramovich is one of a growing list of hyper-rich Russians.

According to Forbes magazine Russia now has 60 billionaires.

Unlike Mr Abramovich, most of them live in Moscow, which, if I'm not much mistaken, makes the Russian capital home to more billionaires than any other city in the world.
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How exactly these people have got hold of such vast wealth in such a short time is a very good question, and one many ordinary Russians would like answered.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6577129.stm

ETA: Be sure to read the very last sentence of the article ... it's a :wow::wow::wow:

[Digital]

1. Holy shit!!

"Today a quarter of Russia's economy is owned by 36 men".

I guess they really pulled themselves up by the boot-straps huh?


:mad:

[Blue_Tires]

3. welcome to the site!

yeah, that is crazy....another few years of this and time will be ripe for revolution again

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. I've heard repukes defend this.

It's what they want -- to go back to the early 1900s with the Robber Barons in the US and Nicholas II in Russia.

[Blue_Tires]

4. ttt nt