Might as well learn some recent Russian history.

Rise of Oligarchy under Yeltsin:

"Russia's 'oligarchy' took power during Yeltsin’s re-election in 1996, when they used his reliance on funding from Russia's leading seven bankers to acquire the cream of the country's resource-producing assets."

…Of all the 1990s oligarchs, none was more powerful than Berezovsky, who coined the phrase "the rule of seven bankers”. Berezovsky attained high political office, allowing him to directly shape Russian domestic and foreign security policy – at the same time as being a citizen of Israel.

Berezovsky acknowledged that his power was based on his control over TV channel ORT. "90% of all TV influence is concentrated in the top three channels: ORT, RTR and NTV," Berezovsky told US diplomats in 2000, according to the declassified documents. Of these, his own ORT was by the far the most powerful, he said.

With ORT as his power base, Berezovsky set himself apart from all other oligarchs in terms of his political ambitions. He sought and gained influence not only on key domestic political questions, including the country's territorial integrity, but also directly on Russia's foreign policy.

At the height of his power, Berezovsky was deputy head of Russia's powerful security council, but, as the documents make clear, security council head Ivan Rybkin was merely his pawn."

Berezovsky and yearning for western alliance [Possibly part of the cabal NWO goal]

"Open oligarch support for Nato expansion may have deepened suspicion of the Western alliance among conservative figures in Russia's foreign policy and security elites, who feared that the oligarchs were ready to sell out their country to the West.

The diplomatic dispatches show how competing foreign policy positions – pro-US vs Russia-centric – were quickly enmeshed with the domestic struggle over power and money at the end of the Yeltsin era. Berezovsky's struggle for political supremacy with Primakov, whom he called his "ideological enemy", ran parallel to Primakov pushing back against Berezovsky's business practices in 1999."

…"Berezovsky directly tried to enlist US support to oust Primakov from the post of prime minister in May 1999, and thus to scupper Primakov's presidential ambitions, the documents reveal."

Putin's first term as President after Yeltsin was forced to resign:

"One year after Berezovsky had conspired to oust Primakov, Vladimir Putin was president and Berezovsky on his way out.

…"Putin is better than Primakov," Berezovsky told US diplomats bluntly in 2000. In contrast to Primakov, Putin had said he would not revise the controversial privatisations of the 1990s, through which oligarchs acquired ownership of key assets in the resource industries.

Berezovsky appears not to have anticipated that Putin would clip the oligarchs’ political wings, perhaps because for him and his fellow oligarchs political and economic power and were one and the same. Putin's ideological mix of capitalism and conservative authoritarianism was new in Russia, which was used to a binary opposition of pro-Soviet statist forces and supporters of pro-Western laissez-fair policies."

https://www.intellinews.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-russian-oligarchy-500446387/?archive=bne

Part 2 of recent Russian history

Putin inherited a MESS from Yeltsin that may remind you of the US situation in 2016 (except US resources, technology and businesses were turned over to foreign governments and other foreign entities)

"Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia had undergone a radical transformation, moving from a centrally planned economy to a globally integrated market economy. Corrupt and haphazard privatization processes turned over major state-owned firms to politically connected "oligarchs", which has left equity ownership highly concentrated.

Yeltsin's program of radical, market-oriented reform came to be known as a "shock therapy". It was based on the recommendations of the IMF and a group of top American economists, including Larry Summers.[43][44] The result was disastrous, with real GDP falling by more than 40% by 1999, hyperinflation which wiped out personal savings, crime and destitution spreading rapidly.[45][46]

The majority of state enterprises were privatized amid great controversy and subsequently came to be owned by insiders[47] for far less than they were worth.[43] For example, the director of a factory during the Soviet regime would often become the owner of the same enterprise. Under the government's cover, outrageous financial manipulations were performed that enriched a narrow group of individuals at key positions of business and government.[48] Many of them promptly invested their newfound wealth abroad producing an enormous capital flight.[49]

Difficulties in collecting government revenues amid the collapsing economy and a dependence on short-term borrowing to finance budget deficits led to the 1998 Russian financial crisis.

In the 1990s Russia was "the largest borrower" from the International Monetary Fund with loans totaling $20 billion. The IMF was the subject of criticism for lending so much as Russia introduced little of the reforms promised for the money and a large part of these funds could have been "diverted from their intended purpose and included in the flows of capital that left the country illegally"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

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BAD bad B-A-D precedent if the minority party in Congress can force executive employees to report privileged communications. End of meaningful elections if the minority rules-end of representative Republic.