Rise of the Minigarch
I am told that many oligarchs in Russia are now known as minigarchs. They're down to their last £100 million.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 7:01 AM
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- Name:Bryan Appleyard
A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
3 Comments:
At December 07, 2008 10:26 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hard to know what to say.
If I were them I'd be worrying about my future.
As ordinary Russians grow poorer they'll want their oil and gas back.
At December 07, 2008 12:33 PM,
Passer by said…
best foriegn policy you can have, oil under 50 dollars a barrel.
At December 10, 2008 9:27 AM,
sarteur said…
Don't think the prefixes (prefices?) are coterminous - mini doesn't relate to oli - or it would be maxigarchs downsizing to minigarchs. Oligarchy is rule by the few (oli- means few in Greek.
Isn't pedantry fulfilling?
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