dubelier, understood. on a very basic level, the way the oligarch thing works under putin, if you're the right guy, it's always guys, never ladies, if you're the right guy, putin will get you get rich. fabulously rich. he'll happily and profoundly rip off the russian people, rip off the russian government, rip off the assets of the russian nation to make you personally fabulously wealthy. but then he owns you, and you serve him. you as a fabulously wealthy person serve the interest of vladimir putin and the interests of russia and the russian government as defined by vladimir putin. a system was devised mostly involving russian defense contracts that would make him spectacularly wealthy and he is. the apparent bag man who ran that operation was allowed himself to skim off $150 million in cash over just two years. he is now sitting in a jail cell in north carolina where prosecutors are pursuing him not only for the lurid double-murder for hire plot he apparently carried out against the guy he thought was wi