“The Money Was Too Good”: Who Are the Oligarchs and What Do They Want?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, Inside the Hive cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan talk to an expert on the ultrarich oligarchs behind Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Dartmouth sociologist and author Brooke Harrington. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has implicated Putin’s feudal system of corrupt oligarchs, rallying the West to trying to seize their offshore bank accounts and superyachts. Taking their stuff could weaken them, but Harrington says tarnishing and destroying their social status in London and New York, where they’ve built opulent fiefdoms, may be just as effective. Also, Harrington tells of her efforts to join the White House’s new anti-oligarch task force, KleptoCapture—with distressing results. Follow our guest, Brooke Harrington: https://twitter.com/EBHarrington Follow Emily and Joe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/emilyjanefox https://twitter.com/joehagansays Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.1	Welcome back to Inside the Hive, taking you inside the news with the people you make and
0:42.6	shape it.
0:43.6	I'm Emily Jane Fox.
0:44.6	I'm here with my co-host, Joe Hagen.
0:46.4	Hey, Joe, we have a very exciting show this week.
0:48.9	Yes, we do.
0:50.9	History is unfolding in front of us in Europe.
0:54.3	Incredible things coming through our cable news and social media feeds as we're sort
1:00.6	of poised on the nice edge between like hope and fear over what's going to happen with
1:05.0	Ukraine and Russia.
1:07.1	And one of the big themes that is emerging in all of this are the oligarchs, the Russian
1:14.5	oligarchs, the financial kind of feudal, patronage system that has supports Vladimir Putin.
1:23.4	Around the world we're seeing giant megayots being seized and the assets being pursued
1:28.5	of these ultra-rich corrupt characters who made their money illegitimately out of the
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