The oligarchs of the world have a surprising amount in common. Here are tips and resources for investigating their hidden ...

With a recent wave of arrests and expropriations, as well as possible assassinations, Putin appears to be turning on more of ...

As Trump surrounds himself with tech billionaires, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist David Hoffman about Russia's history, in which a few wealthy men grew very close to political power.

While he understandably reacted to Trump’s comment about “nice” Russian oligarchs, swaths of social media users were most alarmed about the rest of the president’s statement — which ...

Russia's oligarchs became wealthy thanks to the weakness of the state. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left state-owned industries open to privatization.