Jewish power in Yeltsin's Russia

"[T]he KGB was cut off from the post-Soviet redistribution of assets. Worse still, it was upstaged and outwitted by a tiny group of opportunists, many of them Jews (not a people beloved by the KGB), who became known as the oligarchs. Between them, they grabbed most of the country's natural resources and other privatised assets. KGB officers watched the oligarchs get super-rich while they stayed cash-strapped and sometimes even unpaid."

http://www.economist.com/node/9682621

See also: 1999: 80% of Russian economy in Jewish hands