Quite simply they have a small population to land mass and within that land mass is untold riches in abundance.Diamonds and gold, coal, wood, water.
The oligarchs carved up the Soviet industries and where as the English establishment have lived off of 300 years of rape and pillage the Oligarchs have a modern taste for such. So the English invest safely where as the Oligarchs invest in all high risk high return industries. Prostitution, drugs, stolen cars, jets, soccer clubs and yachts all give high returns.
Quite simply they have a small population to land mass and within that land mass is untold riches in abundance.Diamonds and gold, coal, wood, water. The oligarchs carved up the Soviet industries and where as the English establishment have lived off of 300 years of rape and pillage the Oligarchs have a modern taste for such. So the English invest safely where as the Oligarchs invest in all high risk high return industries. Prostitution, drugs, stolen cars, jets, soccer clubs and yachts all give high returns.