What collective name is given to the group of powerful business magnates who acquired major state assets at low prices during the privatisations of the 1990s?

• A Nomenklatura
• B Siloviki
• C Apparatchiks
• D Oligarchs ✓

The so-called oligarchs emerged from the loans-for-shares scheme of 1995–96 and came to control large sectors of industry and media.