Author: Marshall I. Goldman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-04-10

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1134376847

In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires.