Those "rich Russians" had nothing to buy with, their fortunes were all borrowed from the West. And the Western financial elite were quite selective.
The "shock therapy" corporatisation and 100% sell-off policies came directly from the keyboards of Western advisers.
The governing corporate laws were copy-pasted from the West, with the assistance of state-funded Western advisers.
Sometimes its not the West's elites' fault.
And other times the shoe fits really, really well, and in public.
