Revisions
You might want to pencil in some edits to your textbook's chapter on Russia. This is from The Washington Post Opinion section. Is Russia all out of oligarchs? It says it is. Newly announced U.S. sanctions on Russia aim to target not only its political elite but also its financial elite: the “oligarchs.” “Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government’s destabilizing activities,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said… But what if Russia doesn't have oligarchs? That may seem like a radical position, but that's the apparent stance of the Russian government. “There are no oligarchs in Russia,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters… The term that the Russian presidential spokesman said he would prefer was “representatives of big business.” … Such remarks may cause many in the West to scoff, but there is a kernel of truth to the idea. The term “oligarch” first came to be used in R...