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n. - One of the rulers in a government that contains a few select people.

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  • Kremlin, Moscow VLADIMIR PUTIN: You know, I dont really like the word oligarch used to describe big business representatives in Russia.
  • President of Russia V. Putin The Kremlin, Moscow VLADIMIR PUTIN: You know, I dont really like the word oligarch used to describe big business representatives in Russia.
  • ABC in its 1990s thinking is still not allowing embedding of video but you can see a nice simple 5 minute video on "the banking system" (they even included the word...
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