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Articles with tag "Oligarchs"

lifetime appointment

UK Names Media Mogul Yevgeny Lebedev to House of Lords

Lebedev owns Britain’s Independent and Evening Standard newspapers and is the son of Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev.
FALLEN OLIGARCH

Russia Steps Up Hunt To Seize Foreign Assets of ‘Putin’s Banker’

Alfa Group hired to track and seize overseas wealth in the latest development in legal battle between the Kremlin and Sergei Pugachev.
emerging identities

Fugitive Oligarch Posts Unseen Photos of Putin’s Daughters

The photos depict two teenage girls identified as “Katerina and Mariya Putina.”
shady shipment

$50M in Fabergé Antiquities Shipped to Panama After Oligarch Hit With Sanctions: Reports

Viktor Vekselberg bought nine Fabergé Easter eggs in 2004.
oligarch death

Russian Billionaire Bosov Dies by Suicide

Dmitry Bosov, ranked 86th in Forbes’ list of the richest Russian billionaires with a $1.1 billion net worth.
WIPEOUT

Russia’s Richest Billionaires Have Lost $62Bln So Far This Year

The 24 men are still worth more than the GDP of most countries.
DIRTY MONEY

U.S. Says Billionaire Deripaska Laundered Putin’s Cash – FT

The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Deripaska and two dozen other tycoons and officials in April 2018.
In absentia

Russia Seeks Fugitive Billionaire Boris Mints’ Arrest

Mints and his two sons are accused of embezzling 34 billion rubles ($533 million).
copyright claim

Russian Police Raid U.S.-Owned Web Server Nginx’s Moscow Office

Russian internet Rambler says its exclusive rights to the web server were violated, costing it up to $820,000.
Passport crackdown

Russian Billionaire Deripaska Stripped of Cyprus Passport – Politis

Cyprus earlier said it had started a process to strip 26 individuals of citizenship they received under a secretive passports-for-investment scheme.
Orthodox Empire

Russia’s ‘Orthodox Tycoon’ Is Bankrolling a Monarchist Movement. But Where Does He Get His Money?

About 30% of Russians have monarchist views, but when Malofeyev talks about monarchy, it is not an abstract concept.
Unorthodox proselytizing

Russian Billionaire Moves to Launch Orthodox 'Troll Farm' – Reports

Malofeev's Orthodox Christian “troll farm” reportedly intends to emulate the infamous Internet Research Agency.
face charges

Russia Seeks Extradition of Journalist From Latvia

The Rosbalt reporter is accused of defamation by oligarch Alisher Usmanov.
lonely at the top

2 Lone Billionaires Top Russia’s Richest Women List

Tatyana Kovalchuk, a newcomer to the Forbes list, came in third with a $600 million fortune.
Fatal mining

3 Dead in Underground Mine Accident at Russia's Nornickel

The deaths could have been caused by methane gas poisoning, a source said.
SOCIAL GAP

Russia Named World’s Most Unequal Economy

The richest 10% of the population controls 83% of Russia's wealth.
UKRAINE COSTS

Russia’s Mechel Seeks Compensation over Seized Donetsk Steel Plant

Igor Zyuzin, once one of Russia’s richest men, asks Kremlin for compensation over seized steel plant in Eastern Ukraine.
Dynasties of wealth

Russia’s Richest Families a Mix of Old Faces and Newcomers – Forbes

Mikhail Gutseriyev's family lost $320 million since last year but still stayed in the top spot.
unfavorable investments

Russian Tycoons Forsake Western Sports Teams as Asians Step Up

Inside Russia, billionaires sometimes support money-losing teams to maintain good standing with the Kremlin.
rich list

Moscow Is Home to the World’s Third-Largest Number of Billionaires

The Russian capital has 71 super-rich residents, behind New York and Hong Kong.
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