sneakypete wrote:
"Under the Soviet system,all that matters are results because the Oligarchs will NEVER suffer. After all,THEY own and control the Russian treasury,and they NEVER get fired."
You're still fightin' the Cold War and the Vietnam war, Pete.
Soviet communism ended back around Christmas Day, 1991, as I recall.
That doesn't mean that a [good-sized] number of "old-line communists" remain, in and out of government.
But outfits such as Gazprom are "in it for the money ... profit"... even if the government still gets its share, too.
These days, the powers-that-be are more like those of the czar era, than of the politburo.