“The country’s oligarchs themselves had divided loyalties and ambitions and thus were never entirely subservient. Putin had tamed Russia’s oligarchs, while in Ukraine they still threw their support – and cash – behind different political factions, depending on their financial interests.”

“The country’s oligarchs themselves had divided loyalties and ambitions and thus were never entirely subservient. Putin had tamed Russia’s oligarchs, while in Ukraine they still threw their support – and cash – behind different political factions, depending on their financial interests.”

— Steven Lee Myers