Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Melik Kaylan: Oligarchs, Russia and Ukraine – what Magnitsky, Akhmetov and Kyiv’s elections bode
Ukraine's richest man Rinat Akhmetov called his workers in two Ukrainian oblasts to hold a strike against Kremlin-backed separatists on May 19.
It’s a very risky time for post-Soviet oligarchs. On May 19, Ukraine’s biggest oligarch Rinat Akhmetov came out against separatists and placed himself squarely in the firing line between Moscow and Kyiv. On the same day, in Washington, as part of the Magnitsky Act provisions, twelve Russian names were publicly put under US sanctions including that of Dmitry Kluev, said to be chief of a particularly sleazy Russian organized crime group.
