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new nobilitystresses
hist. новое дворянство (Wall Street Journal; Nikolai Patrushev, who succeeded Mr. Putin as the agency's director in 2000, calls his FSB colleagues a "new nobility." Alex_Odeychuk)
hist.fig. новая знать (The new nobility favored a social order in which luxury and wealth were not considered a vice. The distance between the common people and the nobility grew ever wider. — Новая знать предпочитала общественный порядок, в котором роскошь и богатство не считались пороком. Расстояние между простыми слоями населения и знатью всё больше увеличивалось.)