by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was the US strategy for dismembering the Soviet Union, and then destroying the surviving Russian part, to install individual politicians and formations of economic assets controlled by Washington. The first chosen was Boris Yeltsin; then his prime minister Yegor Gaidar and chief of staff Anatoly Chubais; and then the oligarchs … Continue reading RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS CONTEMPLATE THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA —  NEVER HAS THEIR GRIP ON THE KREMLIN BEEN MORE THREATENED, NEVER HAS RUSSIAN OPPOSITION TO OLIGARCH RULE BEEN WEAKER