The Oligarchs Who Help Turn Democracy Into Autocracy
The Atlantic In Poland, Russia, and other countries, rulers are anointing their own plutocrats—and ensuring their own self-preservation. 6:30 AM ET About the author: Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of In 2015, Daniel Obajtek was the county commissioner of Pcim, a tiny district south of Kraków and north of the Polish-Slovak border. “County commissioner” is perhaps a grand-sounding title, but I can’t find a better one. In Polish, the term for the job he held is wójt, an old-fashioned w...
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