There is corruption to deal with, and the rich and powerful oligarchs.

Amade Aba was the son of David, a member of the Genus Aba a powerful Hungarian oligarch.

He was a member of the Salusbury family, a family of powerful oligarchs in Wales which at the time controlled most of Denbighshire along with their cousins, the Cotton baronets.

Khar is the daughter of powerful oligarch and retired politician Nur Rabbani Khar.

Genrikh Padva, another lead counsel for Mr. Khodorkovsky, has defended some of Russia's wealthiest and most powerful oligarchs in the past decade, and is considered a pillar of the legal community.

"The central bank is the biggest and most powerful financial oligarch in Russia," said Andrei Illarionov of the Institute of Economic Analysis, a harsh critic of the bank.

At just after 5 p.m. on June 7, Boris A. Berezovsky, one of Russia's most powerful oligarchs, was leaving the offices of his car dealership in a chauffeured Mercedes 600.

King Charles I Robert (1308-1342) had to spend the first decades of his reign in waging wars against the most powerful oligarchs and he could strengthen his position within the kingdom only by the 1320s.

Government security officers manhandled anyone trying to come in and blocked reporters from covering the rally, which was financed by one of Syria's most powerful oligarchs.

Even Boris Berezovsky, the most powerful oligarch, has lost stature as the Duma has reasserted state control over "his" television network.