Volodymyr Spivakovsky

THE MISTAKES OF OLIGARCHS They are against everyone: those above them, below them, and on the same level. They underestimate the importance of their having the positive image of a special social stratum of oligarchs, however pompous this might sound. They are fighting the wrong people. Having...

(Continued from page DAY AFTER DAY) Now we are witnessing only the birth of oligarchy, while candidate oligarchs flex their muscles from time to time. What can prove the existence of these muscles is the acute social interest in Ukraine and a massive onslaught on oligarchs by the state...

Do you think I want to write about how scandalously and deftly they are fooling the people? Or that they have amassed not so much and this is pardonable? Or that the demons of power have already opened their arms wide and are about to embrace the body of our long-suffering fatherland? Oligarchs are...