Politics● ElevatedSep 17 · Sep 17, 2026, 1:00 AM
Russia's giant game of Monopoly to fund the war
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Le Monde [en] · Eastern Europe
'The Putin System' (3/3). Ever since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, sweeping property redistribution has been underway in Russia. Most often, the state has seized assets from entrepreneurs deemed disloyal and resold them to Vladimir Putin's loyalists.
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