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But the oligarchs own more than gas fields and banks.
Another answer, which may interact with the first, is that the oligarchs are not in this for the long run anyway--that at some level they all expect the game to end fairly soon, and they are simply trying to grab as much as they can.
The Daily Telegraph took a similar tack, decrying the "rise in military influence" and "a resumption in the sway of oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky," but taking heart in the shift of power "from conservatives to reformers."
One answer is that there is no honor among thieves--that the oligarchs are caught in a classic "prisoners' dilemma," in which it is in the collective interest of the group that everyone pay some taxes, but in the individual interest of each oligarch to free-ride on the others.
But in fact the money quickly disappeared, as speculators--certainly including the oligarchs themselves--converted rubles into dollars as fast as the dollars became available.