oligarch

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There’s also little chemistry in his scenes with Alicia Vikander, herself struggling to find dimension in a trophy girlfriend, whose greatest skill in an ever-changing Russia seems to be as an oligarch whisperer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Later we’ll hear a young oligarch say, while chuckling nefariously, “I have a banker’s personality. I love money!”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Garibashvili was widely seen as one of the closest allies of powerful oligarch and Georgian Dream party chief Bidzina Ivanishvili.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

Oleg Deripaska, a loyal Putin oligarch, recently posted a link to a Russian newspaper editorial that was unusually critical of the government’s failure to cultivate a healthy investment climate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Since he did not hesitate to explain his position in public every time he had the chance, for everyone but his own co-religionists he soon became a caricature of the picturesque, reactionary oligarch.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende