Ruth Walker: Of ‘oligarchs’ and ‘plutocrats’
Children are never taught in school that plutocracy is the system they’re growing up in. It’s a term that’s used pejoratively, about others.
But that hasn’t stopped the news media from fixing on some set terms to describe key actors in the unfolding crisis in Ukraine and Crimea. The “businessmen” in the inner circles of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the ousted Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, are referred to as “oligarchs”.
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