Who holds the ECONOMIC POWER in RUSSIA? - VisualPolitik EN
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The war in Ukraine has made us accustomed to hearing news about sanctions and blockades of financial assets, yachts, airplanes, real estate, and endless wealth of all kinds in the hands of Russian oligarchs.
Now, what exactly do we mean by an oligarch? Are they the real masters of Russia? The shadow rulers? How far does their power extend? Who really has the economic power in Vladimir Putin's country? In this video we tell you.
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Would you make a film about every Oligarch who has minimum 1bilion dolars and what company he owns? I think it would be great video.
Like in the bank or in assets?
@@Aaryq both, because for sure some of them are Banking Giants and some Industrial Lords. I think it would awesome to knew more about this guys.
Do you know any film like that?
Oh yes agreed with thanks 🙏🏾 😊 that would be a great video
Good idea Marek
A strongman can survive in power so long as he appears strong. Putin could have survived sanctions so long as he won the war. If he loses the war, and is seen to lose the war, he just becomes Nikita Khrushchev version 2.0. But, for anyone who thinks his replacement will be any better, just ask someone old enough to have stared across the Fulda gap at Leonid Brezhnev's tanks.
his replacement would likely be as corrupt but hopefully not as war hungry.
@@A.Martin not corrupt as your gang it can't be worse
@@slobodanpaunovic3834 ah, Serbians....
@@DerDop at list not a NeoNazis
@pm if we stop them now, they're done. Russia cannot recover after this..
Haha, a few videos about Russia and the troll farm bots have started arriving with their "what about the West" rubbish
They're something like 50 cent party of China. They're not bot. They are employed by governments to comment on social media. Unfortunately there are tons of these fake accounts in my country
But the fundamental bases for human interaction is in fact 'what about '.
I cannot condemn one for the same thing I do.
I cannot condemn someone for something and not do the same for the next person.
People who do this are called hypocrites. And a hypocritical society is unfair and unjust, after all rational and law is not applied equal instead by who I like
@@dinte215 Well if that's really how you analyze the world you've already disqualified yourself from rational debate. Whataboutism is for idiots. Go away Dugin troll.
When the NATO does something bad it gets its own criticism. "What about Russia" isn't an excuse. So when Russia does something absolutely horrific, "What about NATO" isn't an excuse. There is no double standard, the Russians are just trying to make it sound like there is.
@@priceprice_baby i saw how wrote "bad" for NATO then "horrific" for Russia how nice useless western bot
I'm from Russia and this is a well-done and researched video.
In France, it's a lot clearer, we have state enterprises, national champions like Total, Bouygues and Renault which act as private arms of the state. The cosy relationship allows both to work together for geopolitical and geoeconomic pursuits. How does it compare to China, the SOEs, Red Princes and ties between the CCP and private sector? How does this system compare to the Zaibatsu system in Japan and the Chaebols in South Korea?
In the West, this is clearly the case, like the ties between the Ivy League elites to US corporations and government, the influence of banks like Goldman Sachs over the federal government, the influence of the arms industry over the Pentagon, etc.
World Economic Forum.
Powerful corporations always weave a web of influence over the government, but in more developed societies this web is mainly messy soft power, with interested individuals aligning corporate interests with national interests, while the political opposition highlights and exposes the corruption.
Your theory goes out the window when we see that it is possible for a guy from a 3rd world shithole to become the richest man in the USA/world.
Putin: I control russia with an iron grip.
Adidas: How cute but no i control russia
with really tiny hands and little fingers, if you get my meaning.
@@seamusobrien2675 yes, I absolutly get what you mean
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You were able to hold yourself from using The Godfather theme music during the entire video.
Kudos for that.
interesting to get a better understanding of what Oligarchs are, and how "business" works. A shame that the Russian people don't seem to benefit from the country's resources. A long way off from any of the ideas that led to the communist revolution.
It's hard to see how that structure can change.
The invasion of Ukraine may not be going smoothly for Putin, however will the Oligarchs be affected significantly, or care that much, if they have their wealth in Russia.
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Here’s something we won’t know until much later. We won’t know the long term consequences of both the current continuation of the Russo m-Ukrainian war, and the consequences of the economic sanctions the western block on countries towards Russia in reaction to the invasion.
Hopefully Russia will be split into smaller countries, its a real possibility ;)) Russia cannot build anything by its own anymore, tanks, planes, cars, not even rail-roads because they cannot import the parts.Except for agriculture and gas/oil they don't have anything.Its estimated that the local governors will not send their incomes back to Moscow because the population will not have enough jobs so they cannot feed them if they do..some estimate that the goverment will fall in automn, some say that it won't because China and India might save them. The russian people will flee Russia until it closes its borders. And about the war, Putin cannot win unless he uses chemical weapons or tactical nukes..but even if he does, we don't know how the west will respond- he might not even win the war if he uses them. Best scenario for us is if Zelenskyi signs a peace treaty even if that means giving away Crimea and Donbas. If the war escalades Nato might get involved and thats bad for us because of nukes.
@@catac83 we will never agree with this. This opinion share almost all Ukrainians including our president.
@@catac83 what's the point of signing a peace treaty with a country that never ever keeps their word? I don't even understand why there are any talks whatsoever, what is the possible outcome that makes some sense? Russia will promise not to attack Ukraine, we will pretend to believe them and they will pretend not to be preparing another attack?
@@miroslavhoudek7085 Because every war ends with a peace-treaty (except for the korean war which ended in a cease-fire and not a peace-treaty, but that was 70y ago). You are right, many belive that if Putin is satisfied with what he gets from the Ukraine war he will then attack the Baltic countries.In his mind he is at war with Nato and Ukraine, not only Ukraine. I personally think that sooner or later a war between Nato and Russia is inevitable. Putin's popularity among the russians has actually grown to 62% since the war started, he was at 49% before the war. The russian system will sooner or later born another dictator like Putin, it is designed that way.Hopefully Nato will intercept at least some of the russian nuclear missiles.The short and middle range missiles can be intercepted with the Aegis system, Patriots and Thaad's in coordination with radars such as the 1 in Ramstein. The problem are the ICBMs which travel too fast and are unlikely to be stopped by GBIs or other systems at the moment.
I imagine they will be pretty bad. Putin has failed in diversifying the economy of Russia. As soon as Europe has new pipelines and sources for oil and gas, the Russian economy will buckle. Russia has become a really toxic locale for any kind of foreign investment as well.
The real question is will Russia go back to being a centrally planned economy like the USSR was. Because I can't imagine Russia being eager to cut military spending, nor does it want instability due to a poor economy that's tied to a free market.
Great content well delivered. If I was Putin I would be watching my back.
According to sources inside the Kremlin, he is absolutely paranoid. Food tasters, and has a body double on occasions to mitigate assassination attempts.
Not sure how accurate theses sources are, but it sounds completely credible.
Long table, fired all his personal household staff and arrested three top intelligence officers, I'd say Putin is sweating and looking over his shoulder.
oh he's been watching it since day
I would be more worried about getting it from the west, creating a false flag.
He's probably safe for now unfortunately.
Millionaires? 🇷🇺
Billionaires I believe is the more correct term 🤨
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Cool video how about the federal reserve and it's control of the currency round and about .how they got their and what they are been called
1:25 thank you for saying "vladimir putin" and not "Russia" as basically everyone does this, as if the culprit for the war were the russian citizen...
Except it actually is the Russian people... They have a deal with Putin. If you could speak/read Russian, and you read/listened to what normal actual Russian people say/write- rather than what others say about them as the victim, then you would know that they are willing participants in the war crimes their sons are perpetrating in Ukraine. The society truly is kleptocratic from top to bottom.
It shows that you’ve never been to Russian community…
And who were the culprits for the massacres and rapes in Bucha? Putin personally? Did Soldiers have orders to marauder? 71% of Russians support Vladimir Putin, independent sources say, like Radio Freedom.
Nobody gave a hack about hate speech toward Ukrainians in Russia, about Ukrainophobia. It was in popular Russian movies, on TV, in Russian kitchens, and on social networks. Eventually, Russian society dehumanized Ukrainians and made those horrors of war possible. And no, Putin didn't wake up on the 24 of February and decided to unleash war, it started 8 years ago. And everything you can care right now is how to wash hands of Russians out of blood.
The polls show that 80 % of russians support the war, so its pretty safe to say that its russias war
Lots of Russian citizens do support the war though. And even more Russians don't do anything against it. Hard to know the real statistics, but considering not even 1% of the Russian population went out on the streets shows a lot unfortunately.
Dam so close
And how is this different than the US?
Interesting
Not bad for someone from the west. very close to the point. GDP by PPP and median average salary comparison with other USSR republics (including Baltic states) would have given you the full picture of what these "oligarchs" brought to the country.
20% of Russian have no indoor plumbing. This number alone shows the quality of life. Go outside Moscow/St.P, you see Sowjet infrastructure crumble to dust.
Many of those places went from being poorer than Russia to in some cases twice as rich on only a couple of decades.
It's sad that to think all the damage Yeltsin and Putin have do with their gangs of thieves. They robbed the Russian people of so much potential.
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7:14 this guy with laptop ;D
Isn't Mark Zuckerberg also a Oligarch?
Mr. Pooh
So they are basically unstoppable or untouchable?
All men are mortal.
nope but the price of stopping them can be too high.
Plenty examples of mini-Russia countries, they all collapse eventually and become military dictatorships. Only difference is they mostly do not have nuclear stockpiles.
What economy? 😹
What's up with all those over the top "pawn-stars"-type of transitions xd
You're describing reverse oligarchy. An oligarch is a billionaire that controls the state, but you're describing a system where the state controls the billionaires.
No, one oligarch controls the other oligarchs.
The state is controlled by the same oligarch.
Russian nested dolls of oligarchs haha
yeah, russian oligarchs are not really oligarchs it's just a term that remained from the 90s when oligarchs had real power to control politics.
Not really ... it's an interdependency. They both need each other in order to survive, and who has the upper hand changes with time and circumstance. Putin is going down, it's just a question of how soon and who goes down with him.
it's not the state. Putin controls everything.
So far, I haven't been dissuaded of the notion that the US operates on a similar level - except for corporations having a complete hold over the politicians. "The tail wagging the dog" if you will, when it comes to defense, energy, health, education, infrastructure etc.
It does. Anyone acting like its different is just ignorant.
@@googledoxxdmebruh6283 You're right. I'll amend my statement.
All these business tycoons on billion wages while the idiotic middle class stay patriotic singing national songs making peanuts in the process,and fighting their propaganda wars must I add 🤣
Just like in the west
@@terrybaikie2181 yes
@@terrybaikie2181 West has no stalags,.......yet.
@@daniellarson3068 ask the japanese during ww2 , and the koreans etc. , the blacks who got jailed for not going to die in the war in vietnam.
west definitely has stalags - they just don't look as bare bones unappealing as the ones in USSR or the reich.
@@HimanshuSharma-oe4mk I need to read up on the blacks. There were a lot of black people who served in Vietnam as there are many who serve honorably in the armed forces. I am not sure if they are treated any differently than any other conscientious objectors or draft dodgers. America admitted the wrong done to Japanese Americans and awarded them reparations many years ago. America's values are not pure as the driven snow, but the intent to do good is with most of the people. You use "Whataboutism" rather than address the subject at hand.
Thet would be a scary photo on the annually oliegarch bbq🙄
Cool video! Next, do a video on the Western oligarchs.
Big difference is USA oligarchs can be young men from 3rd world shitholes.
Visual Politics, are some of your Patrons companies? And if so, how can you ensure you are a truly independent media?
I ask as someone that's enjoys your content but has some concerns editorial independence.
interesting, but you ignored a huge aspect of the russian economy and didn't explain why it is like this... in the end, it explain the oligarch, but not the ecconomy.
Let's see which Nation's lights go out first!
Slava Ukraini
A Asian country is in economic crisis
Could you make a video about Sri Lanka...
This is what business men who run for political offices in the US will end up creating.
A government run for profit by private corporations (contractors) owned by people with direct ties to those in power instead of government run by civil service for services provided to taxpayers.
World Economic Forum.
Well Roosvelt didnt do that tho, but hes view of society was wider than his own pocketbook
Greedy oligarchic partisanships devolve into kakistocracies.
Do one about the US too❤
so... in russia millionaries must follow the directions of the president, while in the west the president must follow the directions of the millionaries?
In Russia the trillionaire controls billionaires.
I kept wondering if I was hearing correctly. I swear if sexual assault ever becomes predominant in the west they will still portray it as good and exceptional.
@@dinte215 it was prevalent and it's portrayed as a very bad thing.
It's so uncanny, Russia went from being a very egalitarian society (soviet era) to being one of the most unequal society (in socieconomic therms).
In all of the ways
Egalitarian society in Soviet era was nothing but a myth, a good fairytale to gain people's support for overthrowing monarchy. Egalitarian it's just a term to fool the fools. There never has been such a phantasmagoric reality and it will never be. Only in some fools wet dreams...
Oh, it was horribly unequal in the old USSR. High ranking party officials had privileges and access to goods and service that the ordinary citizen could never, ever hope to ever get near.
@@carlfromtheoc1788, indeed pretty sure not really big change from Stalin era to modern era
Only diffrence i see is that Stalin had to much control, Putin like to think and thinks he is alike Stalin
Whats a rushing oligarch? Probably late for his 2 pm meeting
First 3 min you could have just as easily been describing the US
How many penniless young men from Africa have become the richest man in the world working in Russia?😆
All countries has similar structures where business and politics go hand in hand.
I did not know that there is an english channel. I prefer the german channel.
Even more interesting topic for video is on oligarchs who come from early Putin times in St. Petersburg. Where Putin's judo trainer is multi-millionaire now, and other insignificant friends currently are millionaires or billionaires. Amazing yea? Now that is what real kleptocracy is.
There are some who have built wealth from entrepreneurial spirt like Alisher Usman. But they stay there by showing support of Putin, period.
Cant believe.. this guys thinks he said something smart 🤣🤣🤣
@@Hello-gw5lg not really, just a statement, i don't have an ego to think what I say has to be smart.
I do
Remember when VisualPolitik EN did a video about Kazakhstan back in January 2022? Why aren't they doing more videos about the Kazakhstan protests?
Because there are no protests in Kazakhstan now...?!
I read about a few tens of millions dollars sanctioned by the EU. How can this hurt the oligarchs?
Wht about American Rothchild and rockfellers r they not same like Russian oligarchs.
Basically money can't buy you anything except common sense to know we all are one
Sheep farmers, the lot of them. No mention of the livestock at all..
Kieth Woods: "russian" oligarchs.
Igor Kolomoisky.
How far does their power exte?
Just take a look at the guy on the right @0:26 and you'll get an idea.
The sanctions may as well push them to closer ties.
The main problem with this type of system in succession, what happens when Putin is gone.
Most friends of Russia are stuck in the same closed loop of corruption. Many of them have totally collapsed.
You keep mis pronouncing Olive Garden™
Does anyone know what happened to the original bald guy that was the first host of this show?
Wouldn't oligarchs be called aristocracy a few centuries back?
A large company receives all kinds of prievilages connecting to political party is called lobbying in the West and which is legal. So what is the differecences between Russia and US?
In russia they have far more political power than a company does in the US. They can easily work their way around many laws which in the US is slightly harder because of democracy and the fact that politicians here are outing and exposing each other far more. Democrats will expose republicans and republicans will expose democrats. While in Russia, they work together to hide their tracks. If the US was only controlled by either democrats or republicans then it’d be a far more similar situation to russia.
Komrad, in mother country of CCCP, must knkw you that all rules are by glorious potatoes.
Not much difference between this and the Western economic model. Or better still the state can wield influence over business unlike in the West whereby the state has to kowtow to business interests. Either systems do not claim to serve the individual citizens.
Who are American and EU oligarchs?
it doesn't matter anymore. coz they will still get away with it. what's the point if no one got hang
Even bill gates is an oligarch.
No he's just a rich dude who owned something that became popular. He didn't get Microsoft handed to him by the government
@@priceprice_baby the definition of oligarchy is a country ruled by a few people. And technically through lobbying, gifts(usually shares) to politicians, party donations that are reciprocated by the official supporting laws and budgets that favor his backer, the US is wholly an oligarchy like literally all countries on earth.
@Dintê21 all country have oligarch there the super rich that try to influence there government for there advatage
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Whoever controls Russia's oil and gas.
The best friends you can ever have are friends you bought.
Until the money runs out. 😉
I don't understand how Russia doesn't run out of weapons and ammunitions. Are they manufactured in Russia? They never run out of arms. Interesting video.
The application of oligarch to these rich people is indirectly referencing Lenin's use of the term commanding heights. Commanding heights refers to the state owned or linked enterprises which held power over 70-80% of the Russian GDP and a large percentage of the jobs.
Thus its not just about wealth but also about overwhelming power over the economic production of a country.
Russia does not practice "Capitalism" Jason. Just remember in America Zion Williams a 20 year old blackman sign a shoe contract worth 75 million dollars. You never, see that in Russia, China, or India.
@@Madame702 Where did i say they did? And also how is your example a positive reflection of capitalism?
@@jayshen84 China is a gangster state. If you are a "poor, smart, and hard working "Han" Chinese, but your from the country, your totally screwed, you will never get any where in life.
@@jayshen84 China give a special "id" to Chinese that are from the Chinese country side so that they can't get into good schools or high paying jobs. China discriminates against it own people. It is a top down corrupt society.
Correction- corruption a necessary part of prevailing political model in the "World"
Not necessarily, people can always fight corruption. It’s there, but it doesn’t have to prevail
Yes people can fight corruption and that's not up for contention. However corruption is part of ALL Political Models.
@@idaeom that’s what I said. Have you bothered to read my reply properly? My point was, that it can be controlled and it’s manageable, it doesn’t have to be like in Russia where corruption is a pillar of government and the whole system is built upon it
@@casimirkylian3703 oh yes! I read your comment. Please do you live or work in Russia?
@@idaeom no, I don’t
From 1,7 trillion to a massive 12trillion dollars,,, This is too much,
Swiss Banks hold the money.
Its run by Hydra...
HAIL HYDRA!
How is this state-capitalist system much different from CCP China? Very similar systems
Russia is so much like China after all.
is oligarch a derogatory term ?
What economy? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oligarch means these people are in the countries I'm trying to take down.
"Oligarch: A member of a small governing faction."
Trump is/was an oligarch. So is Joe Biden. Both belong to families that represent the elite in the USA with a lot of political power.
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The question is if the USA is an oligarchy. Wikipedia's definition:
"Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious, political, or military control."
Maybe ask who are the people who select the candidates Americans are allowed to vote for, and how much money matters when it comes to influencing voters. I think the answer lies in that.
If you've ever noticed, a lot of the "new" oligarch's of Putin, have German or non-Russian surnames....
Merchants
One of Vladimir Putin's main supporters is named Vladimir Potanin...go figure.
China it seems now. Their plan to own it is just years away.
SERIOUSLY TALK ABOUT SRILANKAN CRISIS
I don't feel USA is any defferent tbh.
SIMILARITIES TO CHINA?
Does the US have Oligarchs? If so then who are they? And how does it work?
No, they don’t. You do not become a billionaire because you are the presidents cook.
Oligarch doesn't mean that undeserving people get money. It means that wealthy people have undue influence. Yes we have oligarchs
@@e.priest8937 Who do you think they are ?
@@e.priest8937 oligarchs need to have gotten the deal from political influence and can only maintain it only of they remain loyal...in USA there are billionaires who are lobist not oligarchs...who does bezo or gate or elon account to??
@@samuelgitonga3770 that's not what oligarch means, you should look up the definition of the word
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This is the same as in Serbia (many others too)... the only thing is that Serbia doesn't have any natural resources, so it's total chaos.
- hey how lazy can you be with pronunciations?
- watch this
*reads the same word differently each time nine times and none of them even remotely right*
Collapsing army, crashing economy, NATO and EU expanding and more united than ever..Putin’s a master strategist eh? 😂
Sounds exactly like how America works lol
One thing that arresting of oligarchs does is make the middle class think that Putin is fair, after all if an oligarch can be arrested then it is fair.
Putin is acting like a commander of pigeons. What happened? 🤭🤫😏
YEMEN!
Putin needs to make smarter friends. His inner circle sucks.
He's afraid to have smarter friends, they might think of ways to replace him.
Mafia capitalism