Meanings of exile oligarch in English

Asked whether he meant the exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, Mr Chaika refused to answer but smiled.

Olga Zhakova, a candidate for Open Russia, an opposition party funded by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, reported office searches and harassment.

The first time Putin took the reigns of state in 2000, he jailed or forced into exile oligarchs that had grown too powerful.

Political freedoms, however, are more tightly circumscribed, so as to leave no chance to potential "colour revolutionaries" or politically ambitious exiled oligarchs.

He said he wished the current trial between Abramovich and exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky had been held in Russia and not at London's high court.