18 months after Putin invaded Ukraine, Russia's sanctioned oligarchs are still rich and even less likely to stand up to him

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Alisher Usmanov, a prominent metals and mining investor, has "particularly close ties" to the Kremlin, the EU said.
50% : However, Peter Rutland, a professor of government at Wesleyan University, told Insider oligarchs had been willing to sacrifice their holdings abroad to maintain their presence in Russia.
48% : Most rose to prominence after buying up assets in industries including natural gas, oil, fertilizer, and steel on the cheap when they were privatized in the "perestroika" reforms of the late 1980s as communism crumbled in the Soviet Union.
46% : In the UK, new financial rules since Brexit undermine the perceived effectiveness of closing oligarchs' bank accounts.
36% : The Yandex founder Arkady Volozh finally criticized the war 18 months after the invasion -- days before he asked for the EU to lift sanctions imposed on him, the Financial Times reported.

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