Another possible target is Anatoly Chubais, who co-ordinated the tycoons' support for Mr Gusinsky this week.
Another bright spot is that the tycoons who used to dominate Russian politics have been weakened.
Many of the tycoons listed in the Forbes 400 include benefactors of U.S. publicly traded REITs.
With funding from the tycoons and diplomatic support from the West, he won by a handsome margin.
He was one of the tycoons who helped to make Japan's economy the second largest in the world.
The tycoons had other ideas: they wanted a rigged one in which they could buy the firm cheaply.
They might even check the power of the tycoons who call most of the shots in public life.
Property shares jumped, and Miss Wong was accused by politicians and others of caving in to the tycoons.
Mr Berezovsky was a main organiser of the tycoons' support for Mr Yeltsin.
Owners of banks, for example, are no longer allowed to extend cheap credit to their other businesses one way the tycoons built their empires.
But in reality the tycoons who had helped carry Mr Chubais back to power were already squabbling with him and with one another.
As Asia-Pacific's takeoff creates fabulous wealth--in our next issue we will list scores of new billionaires--the masses will merit attention along with the tycoons.
The Kremlin probably underestimated the economic impact of its grudge against the tycoons, and may now consider it has done enough pour encourager les autres.
They also like Yulia Timoshenko, a former deputy prime minister who tangled with the tycoons over the country's murky energy business, ending up in jail.
To increase their political clout, and thus their chances of more money, the tycoons who own three of the country's best-known banks are getting together.
"The project is not so much a response to Megaupload but a response to the tycoons from the RIAA shutting down music services, " the anon wrote to Wired.
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The finance secretary, Donald Tsang, says that he must broaden the base for income and other taxes, but the idea is stoutly resisted by the tycoons, amongst others.
To make good on their debts, the tycoons who owned failed banks also had to turn over stakes in their industrial empires, ranging from shrimp farms to tyre makers.
His influence behind the scenes seems to have been negative: western bankers in Moscow suspect that chummy relations between members of his court and the tycoons helped shape the worst bits of the current package, especially the bank bail-out.
The best anyone can hope for is that the current mess may prove a salutary shock to those who caused it, especially the tycoons (see article) who, along with regional bosses, now hold most of the real power in Russia.
In truth, the tycoons abhor democracy chiefly because it would put an end to a system that blesses cosy business arrangements quasi-monopolies and cartels in property, bank interest rates, electricity and ports, while the rest of the population is bought off with subsidised housing and health care.
The tycoons' case will be weakened by the surprise arrest on March 29th, for alleged graft, of two major property developers, reported to be Raymond and Thomas Kwok of Sun Hung Kai Properties, as well as a former high government official, reported to be Rafael Hui.
Not just the tycoons of that trade, but its induced economy, even on some entire societies in parts of the world where the whole national economy rested upon black oily hydrocarbons oozing out of the ground and where, in some cases, people had just finished ousting tyrants who had been monoplizing this resource.
Then last month the High Court ruled that search warrants issued to the SFO as part of its investigation into the property tycoons the Tchenguiz brothers, were unlawful and obtained by "misrepresentation".
Was the legal offensive launched against Mrs Timoshenko because she is upsetting the corrupt tycoons close to the presidential administration, as she insists.
In an interesting new book, The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything, Bloomberg News reporter Jason Kelly has gone behind the scenes to understand what makes the industry tick.
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Thirty-three of the 34 tycoons who returned to the top 40 are at least 20% poorer than they were a year ago.
Henderson Land chairman Lee Shau-kee was one of the big tycoons who bought heavily when the government intervened in the stock market last August.
The falling values have also hurt the property tycoons, who have been urging the government to suspend land sales in order to force prices back up.
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