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Russian capitalists (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

muscovites

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'russian capitalists' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'russian capitalists' is the wordplay.
'russian' becomes 'Muscovite' (Muscovite is an example).
'capitalists' becomes 's' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'muscovite'+'s'='MUSCOVITES'

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