Golden billion

The Golden Billion (Russian: золотой миллиард, romanized: zolotoy milliard) is a conspiracy theory that a cabal of global elites are pulling strings to amass wealth for the world's richest billion people at the expense of the rest of humanity. It is a popular term in the Russian-speaking world.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

The term was coined by Anatoly Tsikunov (writing as A. Kuzmich) in his articles in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. They were assembled in 1994 in the book The Plot of World Government: Russia and the Golden Billion. The term was popularized by Russian nationalist and writer Sergey Kara-Murza.^[6]

^ Cherkaev, Xenia (May 16, 2022). "The Golden Billion: Russia, COVID, Murderous Global Elites". Anthropology and Humanism. 47 (2). New York City: Wiley: 387–393. doi:10.1111/anhu.12386. ISSN 1559-9167. PMC 9348499. PMID 35942196.
^ Taylor, Adam (July 22, 2022). "The apocalyptic vision behind Putin's 'golden billion' argument". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022.
^ Maynes, Charles (2022-11-21). "'Golden billion,' Putin's favorite conspiracy, explains his worldview and strategy". NPR. Archived from the original on 30 April 2024. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
^ U.S. DEPARTMENT of STATE Global Engagement Center (January 25, 2024). GEC Special Report. More Than a Century of Antisemitism: How Successive Occupants of the Kremlin Have Used Antisemitism to Spread Disinformation and Propaganda (PDF) (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-09-02.
^ "The Specter of Immigration". Russia in Global Affairs. Archived from the original on May 1, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
^ Borenstein, Eliot (2019). Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. p. 97. ISBN 9781501735776.

[:1-1] Cherkaev, Xenia (May 16, 2022). "The Golden Billion: Russia, COVID, Murderous Global Elites". Anthropology and Humanism. 47 (2). New York City: Wiley: 387–393. doi:10.1111/anhu.12386. ISSN 1559-9167. PMC 9348499. PMID 35942196.

[:0-2] Taylor, Adam (July 22, 2022). "The apocalyptic vision behind Putin's 'golden billion' argument". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022.

[3] Maynes, Charles (2022-11-21). "'Golden billion,' Putin's favorite conspiracy, explains his worldview and strategy". NPR. Archived from the original on 30 April 2024. Retrieved 2022-11-29.

[4] U.S. DEPARTMENT of STATE Global Engagement Center (January 25, 2024). GEC Special Report. More Than a Century of Antisemitism: How Successive Occupants of the Kremlin Have Used Antisemitism to Spread Disinformation and Propaganda (PDF) (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-09-02.

[5] "The Specter of Immigration". Russia in Global Affairs. Archived from the original on May 1, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-14.

[:7-6] Borenstein, Eliot (2019). Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. p. 97. ISBN 9781501735776.

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