Best Quote by Keith Gessen

Unfortunately, people expect a Russian opposition politician to be a manic libertarian who thinks the oligarchs are great, who isn't interested in the problems…

— Alexei Navalny

Russia has a well-known reputation for corruption; unfortunately, I discovered that it was far worse than many had thought. While working in Moscow I…

— Bill Browder

On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.

— John McCain

Put yourself in the shoes of one of these oligarchs who has been given a gift of $10 billion. Russia is in a deep…

— Joseph Stiglitz

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

— Gary Shteyngart

We've got oligarchs. There are certain people that benefit in the Russian sphere if you will. The oligarchs who basically feed Putin, they've got…

— Joe Manchin

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them…

— Anonymous

In Russia only those who are loyal to the people in power can become wealthy.

— Vladimir Sorokin

A lot of the Russian economy is built around people who are one way or another milking the state and taking money from the…

— Anne Applebaum

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at…

— Alisher Usmanov

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part…

— Bill Browder

Russia is so feudal in its system of patronage and reward that it is virtually impossible for a leader to hand over power without…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore