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FILE - The owner of England's Chelsea Football Club, Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, as he leaves court in London, Oct. 4, 2011. When Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed Russia's "oligarchs" as men who whose vast wealth made them almost shadow rulers. Putin was reported to have told about two dozen of the men regarded as the top oligarchs in a meeting later in 2000 that if they stayed out of politics, their wealth wouldn't be touched. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)