“The pattern we see now of the redistribution of {{w|Bashneft}} to the inner core, has been in place since the beginning, and even before {{w|Yukos}}. This is not a system in which robber barons create the industrial basis of a robust emerging capitalist economy. This is a system in which barons are robbed by value-detracting state raiding elites whose sole position is determined by their relationship to the current president. Value-detraction is an extremely important part of this picture.”