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How Crimea Was Carved Up And Sold At Auction To Putin’s Oligarch Pals

How Crimea Was Carved Up And Sold At Auction To Putin's Oligarch Pals
December 2019, at the opening ceremony for the Crimean Bridge rail link, Russian Transport Minister Yevgeny Ditrikh andPresident Vladimir Putin. Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin Pool / Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire

After the annexation of Crimea, the peninsula’s prized resources were identified and distributed among Russian oligarchs with connections to the Russian President, handing out everything from wine vineyards to hockey clubs to steelworks.

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