The U.K. is slapping big sanctions on Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich by freezing his assets including London’s Chelsea soccer team with the British government saying Abramovich has close ties to Vladimir Putin. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist explains the rags to riches story of the billionaire to demonstrate how these oligarchs generated their wealth over time.
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Their family need to be tracked down too.
An orphan thats makes it rich and then has his money taken away? Hmmm..
BREAKING NEWS: Trump to visit Russian troops to boost morale..😀😂.
@Tim Knepper Sarcasm should be a favorite of tRump lovers. LOL
I was a lifelong Republican, but the way Trump treated Zelenskyy, I had no choice but to leave and change my registration to independent…my party had moved to far in the wrong direction for me.
Tucker Carlson Gobles Putin’s goup.
I would not be surprised if Putin is blackmailing Trump
@HUH your tinfoil hat is showing bro 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good 👍 go ahead and support rising crime , rents, gas prices , and inflation
So they targeting Russians who aren’t Putin?? What did this man do to be sanctioned?? Guilty by association
Russian oligarchs give money to Republicans like Marco Rubio. They give alot of money to Republicans, actually. Don’t believe me? Check out the website Dark Secrets
Tomorrow there will be a new portion of lies – they are already trying to accuse Ukraine of developing biological and chemical weapons. New heinous lie!
Western sounds like an old movie, world . Sounds better over time.
Nice one, you genuinely are trying to show how dire things of the countries and it’s citizens. Economically and other aspects. At this time the future doesn’t look good. First thing. About solving a problem is to acknowledge it. It’s doesn’t look like the media wants to do , I hope your channel expand and bring awareness and opportunity to people. ❤️
@Paul Lorga Bitcoin is bringing a different revolution in the world economy. People who are optimistic investors earn consistently…. Others will just sit and watch!.
This is important too. Keep crying Chelsea fan.
Wow this is just what I have been looking for
Bitcoin is down can we still make profit holding ? I don’t really know how to trade on my own
Poor billionaire!
PUTIN MUST GO
Can someone anyone help me? I don’t know much about politics. I have a question, why is Ukraine not part of NATO?
The West worries Putin would get angry. I think that’s a foregone conclusion.
@Tom Nguyen this is a wrong conclusion. Putler would get angry if Finland and Sweden joined NATO and yet nato is constantly asking them to join.
Black, Jewish and Russian! And tomorrow you! Will that be enough??? Stop racism! 🇳🇬 🇮🇱 🇷🇺
The main difference between Ukraine and Russia is that Ukraine is a democratic state and Russia is a totalitarian state. The President of Russia has been in power for over 22 years and will stay longer if he wants to. The President of Ukraine is democratically elected and in Ukraine the President changes every 4-6 years. In Russia, the opposition has been destroyed, and the leaders of the opposition have been killed!
☝️☝️Anybody that is mining here has a great and rich future ahead.. ,..
https://youtu.be/lf0oJk8nniw
Re: Tucker Carlson March 9, 2022. T Carlson is pushing Putin propaganda. Putin/Carlson are presently accusing the Ukrainians of using biological/chemical labs to manufacture weapons to be used against the Russians, Completely false information.
The world not be destroyed by evil, but by those who standby and watch….a.einstien
Now do the US oligarchs
Shoutout Sean Ranklin
Good take everything anyway from Russia…. How is there military still in action if we sanctioned Russia
You’re just one of many, half the world still trades with them.
It takes time – kremlin goblin was preparing for sanctions so stocked up in advance
They need to do the same to US oligarchs life Koch, Stephen Schwarzman, Larry Fink, Thiel, Jamie Dimon, Robert Mercer et Al and all those who own our politicians on both sides of the aisles. Until we get rid of ours break them up there gouging rents and prices, refusal to allow people policies if universal healthcare, free college but instead leave us in debt that western Europe non corrupt democracies fi nit have because they put people first nit bankers like 2008.
Just take his money and send it to Ukraine. When he comes looking for it tell him to kick rocks 😂 Inseparable
https://youtube.com/shorts/J1dZlArhddI?feature=share
It looks like it British but it a black man behind the scenes his rounding the game
Go Joe!
Take everything they have and give to Ukraine to help rebuild their beloved country.
@Rameez Iqbal ???
This dumb refused to say nothing to the brute beast who is bombarding pregnant women and their unborn babies. Yet he charmed chelsea supporters to be chanting his name when other clubs were standing in solidarity with Ukraine 🇺🇦
he got lucky cuz both of his parents died when he was a child…
Didn’t Roman’s team, chelsea, help improve the economy and quality of sport in the U.K.?
Who cares about a stupid game when people are getting slaughtered?
@Opsman Six They also overstate the properties’es prices in central London. This is why they aren’t affordable for regular people at all.
Are any of these guys friends of Hunter Biden ?
He is so cute. …. 😔 Sorry
Poor billionaire. Now, what’s he gonna do, with one of his super yacht and a few hundred million dollars in Britain frozen? Poor man must be terrified, lonely, and broken, with only a dozen or so billion dollars left in his other accounts in Switzerland, the UAE, China, and Moscow. We are sure Comrade Trump, Giuliani, & Manafort are working hard to connect him to tough guys at the GOP & Fox, to present HIS SIDE of reality…
Well than maybe One of these Rich guy’s should Just become a RUSSIAS hero. A take PUTIN OUT BEFOR THEY LOSE MORE MONEY.
Are some U.S. Special Forces trapped in Ukraine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwvXCwH9Wg
Do you notice that leaders tend to deal only with crisis & not what has brought about the crisis? Why don’t we give attention to understanding the underlying cause of wars?
This one was because the kremlin goblin was jealous of Zelensky
Russian people are failing so badly right now.
Simple answer, throw that demagogue PUTIN out of power
For your Entertainment (and mine since I stumbled across it yesterday and have been chuckling at since), go to eSysmanSuperYachts to watch the Russian oligarchs scrambling to hide their superyachts around the world. He’s updating his world map regularly thru the day and it is verrry interesting and entertaining. They’re running like chickens. Just a FYI in case you need a giggle or two. SUPERyachts, not regular-ol-boats- their toys! Fascinating too. Have fun!
Please , close the sky over Ukraine
i wish the us would start making camps to send all the russian americans as well!
Good
They’re still leaving the border open and haven’t brought American energy independence back to the Trump numbers yet. They’re still trying to prove they can make solar ,wind and tide generators cost effective. They haven’t. Drill Drill Drill..close the border.
Punishment for crimes against humanity -which must be applied against Putin as well to all other similar criminals including just a few individuals identifiable as “Covid-19 Business Master-planners in UK, USA, Israel, China” and other ones in N. Korea, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Iran+ etc.
Anglo-Hebruish advisers of Covid business in US-CA are causing political sabotages for fooled jb’s and jt’s leaderships in North America.
Precious knowledge:
The reality created by fear causing Covid-criminals that’s inflicting sufferings on countless ‘hard-working folks in all corners of the world.
[Deeper insights:
This is an age of quick spreading awareness and no leader on earth can get away without paying the price of consequences of their wrongdoings after undermining the sentiment of the majority of common folks.
To start with catching, the best examples of HGP’s global mission of positive change, would be Putin, Kim and the masterminds of Covid-Business-criminals.
It’s sad to see, for an unclear purpose or reason, our leaderships in North America is still implementing the profiteering, evil agenda of outlandish ‘Covid Business master-planners’.
If the sense of morality was stronger than personal interest or ego, then “our leadership – under outlandish political pressure” would grab the opportunity and use it as an aliby to indirectly help stop grand thievery of public funds through local agents like A. Fauci and then by big evil-network of Covid Vaccine and Tests.
2022 is the perfect time to amend or make and enforce new sets of stricter laws in kind of Saudi or North Korea styles so that severe punishments or long term jail sentences with hard labor (to compensate for and defray the costs of incarceration) are imposed against social criminals as that are badly required by almost all the crime infested (products of too lenient, humatatian 1950 – 1990s VIEWs) nations including Canada, USA and Europe. All the justices departments in the world, unlike the dishonestly, rotten British standard of justice system, are in desperate need of “BETTER SERVING MODEL OF NEW AGE” enforcing tougher punishments against social crimes whether it be wealthy Bill Gates or a poor Street mugger.
There will be no alternative to strongest possible punishments against all perpetrators in social levels, the murderers and defrauders. Period.
Hey agents of secretive systemic manipulators of evil UK in disguise of harmless bosses of public organizations, banking, insurance, health, trade sectors, crown Corporation, “registrars, clerks, gate-keepers of Courts of Law in North America”.
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Now as of mid February 2022, dear Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden, please stop the nonsense rhetoric of Covid restrictions you both are continuing beyond acceptable limit in terms of public credibility and patience in North America, and therefore must adjust your speeches as per the reality and aspirations of North Americans in year 2022.
Dear jt and jb, be informed that both of you are definitely in wrong direction with this Omicron (by listening to advice of your hebruish-anglo advisers with outlandish agenda).
You can choose either: to hear the voice of majority and act in respect to their wishes or to continue to suppressing general public sentiment, but surely you or jb can’t fool the ordinary North American citizenry anymore with the illusory so called scientific data etc. propagated by a special interest small group in profiteering Covid Business.
Remember, the base of supports you and jb got from me since bo’s days in the office as POTUS (go through the hundreds of my emails sent to your desks with non-violent motivations and precious insights for Liberals & Democrats on either side of US-CA border).
Dear jt & jb, instead of acting complacent and inadvertently destroying your own credibility, positions and party bases, wake up and look out of the windows at the sheer volumes of unhappy average folks along with the Canadian truckers that with the support of common folks all over, are actually turning into majority, gathering in your front yards, they are on global streets from Sweden to India, whereas the safe-haven of Covid business masterplanners, the hub of Covid Vaccine and test related material tradings -the UK (wait and see, as of March 21, 2022 PM of UK: bj shall begin to singing totally different tune of ‘antilockdown, no restrictions Covid rhetoric’) as if they are the first rescuers and liberator of the world from the catastrophic Covid.
Soon, just like you, jb of US would be overwhelmed by general public reactions, and be feeling abandoned once “brain-washed by the outlandish Covid criminals” – he, out of his foggy mind, gets in touch with the reality of present time!
Do not even listen to the advice of those ‘good for nothing specialists influenced by big pharma covid vaccine money’.
Regardless of well-bribed or not, with common-sense you guys in top positions, if not ‘delusional like A. Fauci or B. Gates with insanely greed for money’ should ask this logical, simple question to your own selves: where is the regular ‘constantly mutating seasonal flue in this winter of 2022’? ???
You have the answer: “Oh my cron” is nothing but a variant of naturally modified form of lab-modified Covid version of winter flu – which became merchandise of Covid business criminals, in the name of scientific data researches in labs of UK, China, USA etc., have been creating Virus-panic with fear mongering twisted facts via broadcast in all sorts of media with only one purpose of making furtunes in collaboration of their accomplices like “Bill Gates, the criminally motivated ownerships of profiteering Covid vaccine and related product manufacturers”.
In 2022, the above stated too greedy criminals attempted again to get most of what’s left in public health funds in care of poorly or unwisely run global governments elsewhere including our North America.
And by befriending with and believing in the words of North American agents of the evil “a fringe, British Anglo-hebruish agenda of a very small group” mistakenly you guys are ‘caught in a trap and clearly seen on the global stage’.
However, now in 2022, both of you (jt & jb with my precious insights) shall have the opportunity to come clean and lead the entire world ‘of hard-working, good, honest folks, in very transparent, real progressive ways by exposing to the world all the truth and facts you have learned about the deliberately plotted and wel-orchestrated Covid-19 business matter and the positive impact of such acts of morality on collective sentiments of global public will never be forgotten by the generations to come.
Detached from the North-American sources of wealth through mainly Insurance-Underwriting, Vaccine, Medicine, Bombs, War-toys, USAID, Canadian natural resources, oil, money printing etc., the ‘furtively ever systemically manipulating’, double faced, evil-masterminds, a very small, Hebruish-Anglo group are already engaged in covert trade relationship with China and its’ business partners in order to continue their usual invisible crimes of thievery of wealth from other nations, but by the whim of *cosmic thing* their identities would be exposed along with all their associats with heinous money making strategies using the so called scientific data and attempting to further prolong the fear mongering virus business in 2022, by creating situations for wars, productions of destructive materials, bombs, war-toys, war machines, nuke, fuel etc. by propaganda-broadcast of items like natural fuel shortages, ‘global warming etc. etc. .
{N. B. There are just a half of a dozen of races including jews in Arabian territories, and less than only 0.000001% of them are evil-mastermind Semetic criminals like Bill Gates -who have xenophobic, depopulating kind of mass murderers’ mentality) and sadly, a nonsense, anti-semitic law (made a century ago after Hitler-Era ended, and in 2022 it desperately in need to be repealed) is now being used to protect the above noted criminals at top only and not even slightly to benefit the 99.99999% ordinary, good, peace-loving honest jews, Arabs (and other minorities as well}.
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Fact finding as example:
Bill Gates is one of the master culprits -who first became billionaire from creating so named computer virus (hard sisk of computer jamming cookies) and selling mainly through crooked UK based prducts of so called computer-anti-virus softwares, without being held responsible by any authority for their defrauding business practices -which encouged the same elusive group of culprits plot a new evil scheme that involved a lab-modified mixture of humanly transmittable seasonal flu virus with anthrax type other viruses. Then, tests of human-virus: Ebola was performed in some locations in Africa with satisfactory results -which in a labiratory modified and developed form with a new name: Covid-19 has been tested in recent past on crowded places like Cruise Ships and Markets with successful outcome.
(WRITTEN 22 MONTHS AGO: Readers of this informational thought-work should help generate awareness among fellow folks in all corners of the world about the outlandish STRATEGIES to create virus fear and broadcast worldwide by which the highly secretive jobs of “fear of Covid virus spreading” has been done using most of the fooled global governments like America, Bangladesh, Canada, Zimbabwe etc.).} ].
Best news ever
Finally.
I have a question : where did abramovich get 100 mil dollars in 1997? It was ussr, there were no billionaires, everything belonged to the state. So where did the money come from to begin with? Political leaders were getting everything for free, so even they were not billionaires ( didn’t need to)
Putin going to be ended up like Mussolini , Hitler…..
They suffer because of Putin
His fleet of yachts his hightailing ti Vladivostok, currently in the Mediterranean, Boris let him get those assets into safety
Pretty sure the Democrat sanctions against Russia are hurting the US taxpayer more than Russian oligarchs. Probably hurting Russian citizens the most who had no choice in this war.
shenapsez viking iq
NATO needs to stay out of the war no matter what including the possible use of chemical weapons and needs to still support Ukraine with arms and funding. That is the safest way and the only way to avoid a global nuclear war.
Ukraine needs air defense systems and jets so they can establish their own no fly zone. Increase domestic oil production in western nations. Russia the Middle East and China are rigging the price of oil on the west as a form of economic warfare. Never end the sanctions on Russia until they remove Putin and disarm and deactivate all their nuclear weapons. Then the rest of the nations can work on global nuclear disarmament.
Anti aircraft rockets can take out helicopters but not bomber jets or artillery. Migs can take these weapons out. Missile guided systems can also help to take out bombers and artillery. Ukrainians are probably conserving the jets they have for now.
Use a private entity and the open seas for the fighter jets to operate out of. Use a private military and give them a decommissioned naval aircraft carrier or something similar to safely fly the migs into Ukraine to get to a secure Ukrainian airfield. This way no nation is involved. Until the jets enter Ukrainian airspace the Russians couldn’t act on it.
All Billionaires should put their all assets on Irish banks. Imagine Abramovich was Israel
lol, yeah like the elites are really struggling…too funny. try again…
Killing them all
dw mr abramovich, the frozen/confiscated assets will be used for the relief, of Ukrainians 😀
Chelsea soccer club 🤣
What’s the laughing matter here?
The so-called Western civilized world has stole, colonized, caused genocide, took people’s lands, feed their population using slavery, made over 40 military attacks in the last 30 years. And they just now discover how attacking poor innocents like Putin is doing looks like.
BIDEN is a wimp! Unforgivable. What is so sick is that Russia with their tanks just waiting to see what the world will do all this while….we could have given a no air zone to help protect them and give them jets, they could have used their airspace to take out those tanks. This Democrat administration is so bad, I can’t stand them anymore, they are weak and failures. I will NEVER vote Democrat again, I hope a red wave drowns the Democrats these next elections. Democrat leaders are inhumane and chickens, period! They failed UKRAINE!
Rise Oligarchs, Russian military remove insane Putin from power. Putin Steels resources money assets from Russian citizens for his own personal wealth, Putin from trusted sources is worth about 200 billion dollars, Putin has Robbed wealth from ordinary Russians, do the brave and Honorable thing Remove Putin from power
Ukrainian Olive garden gave by his family millions and millions of dollars the Ukrainian criminal organization and Olive garden Olive garden Russian olive guards Ukrainian Olive guards Democrat Olive guards millions of dollars from criminal organizations from Ukraine from Nazis KKK Ukrainian Olive garden gave millions of dollars to diving family Biden family African Americans are being beaten by the racist Biden ukrainians oligars
My gym has banned us from doing Russian twists.
The United state should also be sanctioned from the world All the blood it has on its hands acting as a hero
Good Keep destroying Russia once and for all
Sanctions is useless if it is temporary, if they get everything back after the war.
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Yeah, but only after he got his yachts high-tailing it to Vladivostok
I wonder… Where’s Mikhail Prokhorov been?
Now, United states and the OTAN are acting even worse then hitler chasing jews around the world.
Some of the world’s talented hackers could be helpful by getting the truth to the Russian people. Some could take a peek at the money trail. Others could investigate the connections between oligarchs and politicians and business leaders in other countries. Very interesting. Is it possible to create a software that recognizes patterns in financial transactions in order to narrow the hunt? I know nothing about IT so forgive me if it’s a stupid question.
If you thought the concept it’s definitely doable
The UN Security Council Should Ban Russia’s Seat on the grounds they are the aggressor; then write & pass a Resolution to aid Ukraine with an UN No Fly Zone over Ukraine, a Medical & Humanitarian Ground Force backed by US Special Forces, USAF Special Reconnaissance, SEALs & Marines to provide security. If Putin wants to attack the UN, the World, well that would be on him. Biden has to remember that FDR & Eisenhower knew that American Young Men would die in order to stop the last dictator in Europe from destroying the World. Every American Soldier knows that they may have to make the ultimate sacrifice; so be it in order to Protect Democracy & stop a Murderous War Criminal, V. Putin.
The wealth of Putin’s oligarchs should be used to rebuild Ukraine and provide war reparations.
Russia and its allies should start sanctioning western plutocrats in return.
Oligarchs and plutocrats They both just as bad as each other.
the Oligarchs should take their billions of rubles they still have, and put it in the russian bank for 20% interest
Yes, through themselves at the mercy of a mad cow dictator …
England is the country made on stolen goods and wealth
Trump is one of Putin’s oligarchs.
USA first 🙏 🌭 🍪
its all about money to uk,and america
whos laughing now zelensky , ?!
Buy cryptocurrencies like #LUNA. Get rich and circumvent the banking system. Easy for the Russian oligarchs I think.
Apparently some one has put one million dollars bounty on Putin head I’ll do it for 50p because that’s how much a bullet would cost .
et sanctionner les milliardaires du qatar, des émirats arabes unis est tellement fun
Explainer: https://youtu.be/HpgR5AKe2EM
I still don’t understand why the oligarchs are being sanctioned? Would someone explain it to me?
@Jevon John The Russian military is the third largest in the world. They have a budget of billions. (wikipedia). Probably about 80 or 90 billion U.S..
@Mountain Stream yes and the more war continues the more resources/money are going to be used up so it’s kinda tightening up a methophorical rope of limitation on the resources closest to him that he can afford to have at his disposal.
Not only the Russian oligarchs!!! We must need to sanction and confiscate the luxury toys and assets of the Russian CEO’S reporting to the Russian oligarchs too!! (CEO’s of Russian Banks, Energy & Russian EPC Businesses).. These are the key guys running the show who are working indirectly to Putin’s regime thru the Oligarchs and who are also extremely wealthy!! Wake up guys!!!
What about the oligarchs in the West?
You hot him!!! Now his net worth is only 10 billion dollars!! 👍🤣
Sorry to break it to you, but Western oligarchs are just as evil and corrupt as the Russian ones. And our government leadership is no less corrupt and evil as Putin.
so everyone is happy that a none government person is under attack by another government just because he is a citizen of that country. and this makes sense right???? until sanctions come to a country near you soon, or worse the petro Dollar is dead. you would think the UK would have learned their lesson but they didn’t, the united state is having to go back to Venezuela for oil does that say anything to you????. No well, it should come as no surprise as the UAE and its Oil allies stop selling to the UK and US. they are thinking the same thing that the Russians are thinking if they can do it to them then they can do it to Us so it is a good time to start selling assets in the UK and US, it is important to think about this on both sides if you are a legal investor would it be OK with you if your money is taken for having done business with the president of your country legally and would you ever invest in that country again????.
they should sanction and freeze the assets of US Politicians as they’ve amassed millions in ill gotten gains. you’d then find out who the real oligarchs are.
Fear the REPO
With Russia’s resources, Putin slides de pie and assigns how much each oligarc gets. In return they owe Putin a % of their cut. Complicated yet simple to understand.
Russia’s liquidated military equipment in the first 5 days cost Russia about $7 billion. Russia continues to haemorrhage money into this pointless assault and its people will freeze or starve as its economy implodes. The Rubel has halved in value. I would like better for Russian citizens who do not deserve what Putin has brought upon them.
Nice that means the UK gov can sell everything for him, so he doesn’t have to
Roman Abramovich was poisoned, I think maybe he got into the wrong crowd
Corrupt
Ninety per cent of the owners of capital in London have their headquarters offshore. Jersey and the Caymans are the access gates to criminal capital in Europe and the UK is the country that allows it. ‘London is the most corrupt city in the world’.
R.Saviano
Dropping like flies at the moment.Someone psychotic is killing them off.It won’t be anything to do with Putin and the gangster state though!