The USSR fell apart about 1989.................then, about 15 years later or so..........Moscow had more billionaires per capita than any city on earth...
Qatar won the Fifa bid for the 2022 World Cup...............Russia won the 2018 bid..................connection..................yep.........

Cities Of The Billionaires - Forbeswww.forbes.com/.../billionaires-london-moscow-biz-billies-cz_cv...

  

Apr 30, 2008 - Among Moscow's wealthy denizens: Russia's richest person, ... home to 15, including oil billionaire