Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined

[Luddly Neddite]

Im glad Putin is going to help again in the midterms

CrusaderFrank

I've said it before but damn - I still can't believe that AMERICANS have so blithely and cheerfully and openly sold out their own country.

You stupid stupid stupid people. Do you really believe YOU will gain anything in selling out your country?

Russia is not Communist but I remember when US citizens really did believe "better dead than red". Now you're falling all over yourselves to suck up to the architects of your own demise.

Stupid. Just god fucking damn stupid.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Im glad Putin is going to help again in the midterms

CrusaderFrank

I've said it before but damn - I still can't believe that AMERICANS have so blithely and cheerfully and openly sold out their own country.

You stupid stupid stupid people. Do you really believe YOU will gain anything in selling out your country?

Russia is not Communist but I remember when US citizens really did believe "better dead than red". Now you're falling all over yourselves to suck up to the architects of your own demise.

Stupid. Just god fucking damn stupid.

Hillary should have gotten a billion for the uranium she sold to Russia, that might have helped her win by weakening Uncke Vlad.

Uncle Vlad didn't leave a single fingerprint in 2016. How do Dems hope to stop him in the midterms if they still cant tell us how he did it last time?

 

[Litwin]

Im glad Putin is going to help again in the midterms

CrusaderFrank

I've said it before but damn - I still can't believe that AMERICANS have so blithely and cheerfully and openly sold out their own country.

You stupid stupid stupid people. Do you really believe YOU will gain anything in selling out your country?

Russia is not Communist but I remember when US citizens really did believe "better dead than red". Now you're falling all over yourselves to suck up to the architects of your own demise.

Stupid. Just god fucking damn stupid.

i prefer to use another term Putin´s "useful idiots"

 

[deanrd]

its funny to read western "useful idiots" , who say that Putin rid of OLIGARCHY and oligarchs... + its absolutely clear that putin is obsolete "wealthiest person in the world" . question, will ordinary Muscovite ever wake up?

"
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made waves this week when he briefly unseated Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg's tracker. The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. But according to Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, they’re nothing compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose personal fortune Browder “believes” to be $200 billion.

Browder, who made the claim before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, is one of the best authorities on Putin's business dealings. Browder was a major investor in Russia during the chaotic 1990s, when, according to Newsweek, he took stakes in former state-run enterprises such as Gazprom. During the same period, Browder cooperated with Putin in anticorruption efforts, but eventually found himself targeted by Putin. That conflict eventually led to the jailing and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and in turn to the Magnitsky Act sanctions against certain Russian oligarchs by the U.S."

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined


"
Russian billionaires are worth $104 billion more than they were last year, thanks to the recovery of commodity markets and an increase in the value of Russian currency. Many oligarchs got a boost on the heels of Donald Trump’s election as well. In total Russia’s 96 billionaires, including several connected to Vladimir Putin and at least one tied to Trump, are now worth a combined $386 billion, according to Forbes’ 2017 World’s Billionaires List.

“The cronies and commodity people have done well,” said Anders Aslund, who served as an economic advisor to the Russian government in the early 1990s and now works at the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council. “The commodity prices went up a bit in the last year, and therefore the fortunes are up.”

There are 19 more billionaires counted in this year’s total, including three newcomers to the list and 16 businessmen who had fallen off of it in recent years but returned in 2017. Only nine of Russia’s 96 billionaires lost money over the last year.



Three of the big gainers are alleged members of Putin’s inner circle. Gennady Timchenko, who owns an estimated 23% stake in natural gas producer Novatek, was listed at $16 billion this year, $4.6 billion more than he was in 2016. Shares of Novatek jumped 27% from February of 2016 to February of 2017, when Forbes locked in calculations for its billionaires lists the last two years. In 2014 the U.S. Department of the Treasury leveled sanctions against Timchenko, and alleged that Putin had invested in an oil trading firm he had cofounded. The Russian billionaire sold his 43% stake in the firm, Gunvor, one day before the U.S. Treasury Department issued its sanctions.

Construction titan Arkady Rotenberg, a onetime judo sparring partner of Putin who was also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2014, more than doubled his personal fortune from $1 billion to $2.6 billion over the last year. Despite the sanctions, revenues at his construction firm SGM Group surged more than 20% in 2015. The same year, the Russian Ministry of Transport granted SGM Group an exclusive contract to build a reported $3.7 billion bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized in a 2014 armed takeover. Construction of the bridge is scheduled to be completed in 2018, according to the ministry. Revenues at another Rotenberg company, fertilizer giant Minudobreniya, surged an estimated 52% in 2016....."

Russian Billionaires, Including Several Tied To Putin, Are Up $104 Billion In The Last Year

meanwhile Muscovite hospitals look like these:

Ад российских больниц

It's pretty much known, The reason progressives hate pudding so much is their own envious nature.
Very predictable

Envious? Of a monster? You right wingers are such tards. Putin got his money by forcing wealthy people to turn it over to him. Doesn't your kind LOOOOVE wealthy people and want to cut their taxes to -50% so they can "create jobs" because they are the "job CREATORS"?

Only right wingers are envious of a murderer. Only right wingers.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

its funny to read western "useful idiots" , who say that Putin rid of OLIGARCHY and oligarchs... + its absolutely clear that putin is obsolete "wealthiest person in the world" . question, will ordinary Muscovite ever wake up?

"
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made waves this week when he briefly unseated Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg's tracker. The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. But according to Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, they’re nothing compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose personal fortune Browder “believes” to be $200 billion.

Browder, who made the claim before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, is one of the best authorities on Putin's business dealings. Browder was a major investor in Russia during the chaotic 1990s, when, according to Newsweek, he took stakes in former state-run enterprises such as Gazprom. During the same period, Browder cooperated with Putin in anticorruption efforts, but eventually found himself targeted by Putin. That conflict eventually led to the jailing and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and in turn to the Magnitsky Act sanctions against certain Russian oligarchs by the U.S."

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined


"
Russian billionaires are worth $104 billion more than they were last year, thanks to the recovery of commodity markets and an increase in the value of Russian currency. Many oligarchs got a boost on the heels of Donald Trump’s election as well. In total Russia’s 96 billionaires, including several connected to Vladimir Putin and at least one tied to Trump, are now worth a combined $386 billion, according to Forbes’ 2017 World’s Billionaires List.

“The cronies and commodity people have done well,” said Anders Aslund, who served as an economic advisor to the Russian government in the early 1990s and now works at the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council. “The commodity prices went up a bit in the last year, and therefore the fortunes are up.”

There are 19 more billionaires counted in this year’s total, including three newcomers to the list and 16 businessmen who had fallen off of it in recent years but returned in 2017. Only nine of Russia’s 96 billionaires lost money over the last year.



Three of the big gainers are alleged members of Putin’s inner circle. Gennady Timchenko, who owns an estimated 23% stake in natural gas producer Novatek, was listed at $16 billion this year, $4.6 billion more than he was in 2016. Shares of Novatek jumped 27% from February of 2016 to February of 2017, when Forbes locked in calculations for its billionaires lists the last two years. In 2014 the U.S. Department of the Treasury leveled sanctions against Timchenko, and alleged that Putin had invested in an oil trading firm he had cofounded. The Russian billionaire sold his 43% stake in the firm, Gunvor, one day before the U.S. Treasury Department issued its sanctions.

Construction titan Arkady Rotenberg, a onetime judo sparring partner of Putin who was also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2014, more than doubled his personal fortune from $1 billion to $2.6 billion over the last year. Despite the sanctions, revenues at his construction firm SGM Group surged more than 20% in 2015. The same year, the Russian Ministry of Transport granted SGM Group an exclusive contract to build a reported $3.7 billion bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized in a 2014 armed takeover. Construction of the bridge is scheduled to be completed in 2018, according to the ministry. Revenues at another Rotenberg company, fertilizer giant Minudobreniya, surged an estimated 52% in 2016....."

Russian Billionaires, Including Several Tied To Putin, Are Up $104 Billion In The Last Year

meanwhile Muscovite hospitals look like these:

Ад российских больниц

It's pretty much known, The reason progressives hate pudding so much is their own envious nature.
Very predictable

Envious? Of a monster? You right wingers are such tards. Putin got his money by forcing wealthy people to turn it over to him. Doesn't your kind LOOOOVE wealthy people and want to cut their taxes to -50% so they can "create jobs" because they are the "job CREATORS"?

Only right wingers are envious of a murderer. Only right wingers.

Putin forced people to turn their money over to the government? He sounds like a Democrats

 

[Litwin]

its funny to read western "useful idiots" , who say that Putin rid of OLIGARCHY and oligarchs... + its absolutely clear that putin is obsolete "wealthiest person in the world" . question, will ordinary Muscovite ever wake up?

"
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made waves this week when he briefly unseated Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg's tracker. The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. But according to Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, they’re nothing compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose personal fortune Browder “believes” to be $200 billion.

Browder, who made the claim before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, is one of the best authorities on Putin's business dealings. Browder was a major investor in Russia during the chaotic 1990s, when, according to Newsweek, he took stakes in former state-run enterprises such as Gazprom. During the same period, Browder cooperated with Putin in anticorruption efforts, but eventually found himself targeted by Putin. That conflict eventually led to the jailing and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and in turn to the Magnitsky Act sanctions against certain Russian oligarchs by the U.S."

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined


"
Russian billionaires are worth $104 billion more than they were last year, thanks to the recovery of commodity markets and an increase in the value of Russian currency. Many oligarchs got a boost on the heels of Donald Trump’s election as well. In total Russia’s 96 billionaires, including several connected to Vladimir Putin and at least one tied to Trump, are now worth a combined $386 billion, according to Forbes’ 2017 World’s Billionaires List.

“The cronies and commodity people have done well,” said Anders Aslund, who served as an economic advisor to the Russian government in the early 1990s and now works at the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council. “The commodity prices went up a bit in the last year, and therefore the fortunes are up.”

There are 19 more billionaires counted in this year’s total, including three newcomers to the list and 16 businessmen who had fallen off of it in recent years but returned in 2017. Only nine of Russia’s 96 billionaires lost money over the last year.



Three of the big gainers are alleged members of Putin’s inner circle. Gennady Timchenko, who owns an estimated 23% stake in natural gas producer Novatek, was listed at $16 billion this year, $4.6 billion more than he was in 2016. Shares of Novatek jumped 27% from February of 2016 to February of 2017, when Forbes locked in calculations for its billionaires lists the last two years. In 2014 the U.S. Department of the Treasury leveled sanctions against Timchenko, and alleged that Putin had invested in an oil trading firm he had cofounded. The Russian billionaire sold his 43% stake in the firm, Gunvor, one day before the U.S. Treasury Department issued its sanctions.

Construction titan Arkady Rotenberg, a onetime judo sparring partner of Putin who was also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2014, more than doubled his personal fortune from $1 billion to $2.6 billion over the last year. Despite the sanctions, revenues at his construction firm SGM Group surged more than 20% in 2015. The same year, the Russian Ministry of Transport granted SGM Group an exclusive contract to build a reported $3.7 billion bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized in a 2014 armed takeover. Construction of the bridge is scheduled to be completed in 2018, according to the ministry. Revenues at another Rotenberg company, fertilizer giant Minudobreniya, surged an estimated 52% in 2016....."

Russian Billionaires, Including Several Tied To Putin, Are Up $104 Billion In The Last Year

meanwhile Muscovite hospitals look like these:

Ад российских больниц

It's pretty much known, The reason progressives hate pudding so much is their own envious nature.
Very predictable

Envious? Of a monster? You right wingers are such tards. Putin got his money by forcing wealthy people to turn it over to him. Doesn't your kind LOOOOVE wealthy people and want to cut their taxes to -50% so they can "create jobs" because they are the "job CREATORS"?

Only right wingers are envious of a murderer. Only right wingers.

Putin forced people to turn their money over to the government? He sounds like a Democrats

no , he doesn´t , Muscovite oligarchs have never been that rich as they are in 2017

 

[Litwin]

its funny to read western "useful idiots" , who say that Putin rid of OLIGARCHY and oligarchs... + its absolutely clear that putin is obsolete "wealthiest person in the world" . question, will ordinary Muscovite ever wake up?

"
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made waves this week when he briefly unseated Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg's tracker. The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. But according to Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, they’re nothing compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose personal fortune Browder “believes” to be $200 billion.

Browder, who made the claim before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, is one of the best authorities on Putin's business dealings. Browder was a major investor in Russia during the chaotic 1990s, when, according to Newsweek, he took stakes in former state-run enterprises such as Gazprom. During the same period, Browder cooperated with Putin in anticorruption efforts, but eventually found himself targeted by Putin. That conflict eventually led to the jailing and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and in turn to the Magnitsky Act sanctions against certain Russian oligarchs by the U.S."

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined


"
Russian billionaires are worth $104 billion more than they were last year, thanks to the recovery of commodity markets and an increase in the value of Russian currency. Many oligarchs got a boost on the heels of Donald Trump’s election as well. In total Russia’s 96 billionaires, including several connected to Vladimir Putin and at least one tied to Trump, are now worth a combined $386 billion, according to Forbes’ 2017 World’s Billionaires List.

“The cronies and commodity people have done well,” said Anders Aslund, who served as an economic advisor to the Russian government in the early 1990s and now works at the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council. “The commodity prices went up a bit in the last year, and therefore the fortunes are up.”

There are 19 more billionaires counted in this year’s total, including three newcomers to the list and 16 businessmen who had fallen off of it in recent years but returned in 2017. Only nine of Russia’s 96 billionaires lost money over the last year.



Three of the big gainers are alleged members of Putin’s inner circle. Gennady Timchenko, who owns an estimated 23% stake in natural gas producer Novatek, was listed at $16 billion this year, $4.6 billion more than he was in 2016. Shares of Novatek jumped 27% from February of 2016 to February of 2017, when Forbes locked in calculations for its billionaires lists the last two years. In 2014 the U.S. Department of the Treasury leveled sanctions against Timchenko, and alleged that Putin had invested in an oil trading firm he had cofounded. The Russian billionaire sold his 43% stake in the firm, Gunvor, one day before the U.S. Treasury Department issued its sanctions.

Construction titan Arkady Rotenberg, a onetime judo sparring partner of Putin who was also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2014, more than doubled his personal fortune from $1 billion to $2.6 billion over the last year. Despite the sanctions, revenues at his construction firm SGM Group surged more than 20% in 2015. The same year, the Russian Ministry of Transport granted SGM Group an exclusive contract to build a reported $3.7 billion bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized in a 2014 armed takeover. Construction of the bridge is scheduled to be completed in 2018, according to the ministry. Revenues at another Rotenberg company, fertilizer giant Minudobreniya, surged an estimated 52% in 2016....."

Russian Billionaires, Including Several Tied To Putin, Are Up $104 Billion In The Last Year

meanwhile Muscovite hospitals look like these:

Ад российских больниц

It's pretty much known, The reason progressives hate pudding so much is their own envious nature.
Very predictable

Envious? Of a monster? You right wingers are such tards. Putin got his money by forcing wealthy people to turn it over to him. Doesn't your kind LOOOOVE wealthy people and want to cut their taxes to -50% so they can "create jobs" because they are the "job CREATORS"?

Only right wingers are envious of a murderer. Only right wingers.

Putler got his money from sickly high oil prices which were 100-120$.

 

[Blackrook]

When did Democrats discover they hate the Russians?

Up until a year ago, Democrats were sucking Russian penis like a Times Square prostitute.

Hillary and Bill took a huge bribe in exchange for Russia getting North American uranium supplies.

Obama told the Russians they needed to wait after the election so he could be more flexible.

Where's the outrage about that?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

its funny to read western "useful idiots" , who say that Putin rid of OLIGARCHY and oligarchs... + its absolutely clear that putin is obsolete "wealthiest person in the world" . question, will ordinary Muscovite ever wake up?

"
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made waves this week when he briefly unseated Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg's tracker. The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. But according to Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, they’re nothing compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose personal fortune Browder “believes” to be $200 billion.

Browder, who made the claim before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, is one of the best authorities on Putin's business dealings. Browder was a major investor in Russia during the chaotic 1990s, when, according to Newsweek, he took stakes in former state-run enterprises such as Gazprom. During the same period, Browder cooperated with Putin in anticorruption efforts, but eventually found himself targeted by Putin. That conflict eventually led to the jailing and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and in turn to the Magnitsky Act sanctions against certain Russian oligarchs by the U.S."

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined


"
Russian billionaires are worth $104 billion more than they were last year, thanks to the recovery of commodity markets and an increase in the value of Russian currency. Many oligarchs got a boost on the heels of Donald Trump’s election as well. In total Russia’s 96 billionaires, including several connected to Vladimir Putin and at least one tied to Trump, are now worth a combined $386 billion, according to Forbes’ 2017 World’s Billionaires List.

“The cronies and commodity people have done well,” said Anders Aslund, who served as an economic advisor to the Russian government in the early 1990s and now works at the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council. “The commodity prices went up a bit in the last year, and therefore the fortunes are up.”

There are 19 more billionaires counted in this year’s total, including three newcomers to the list and 16 businessmen who had fallen off of it in recent years but returned in 2017. Only nine of Russia’s 96 billionaires lost money over the last year.



Three of the big gainers are alleged members of Putin’s inner circle. Gennady Timchenko, who owns an estimated 23% stake in natural gas producer Novatek, was listed at $16 billion this year, $4.6 billion more than he was in 2016. Shares of Novatek jumped 27% from February of 2016 to February of 2017, when Forbes locked in calculations for its billionaires lists the last two years. In 2014 the U.S. Department of the Treasury leveled sanctions against Timchenko, and alleged that Putin had invested in an oil trading firm he had cofounded. The Russian billionaire sold his 43% stake in the firm, Gunvor, one day before the U.S. Treasury Department issued its sanctions.

Construction titan Arkady Rotenberg, a onetime judo sparring partner of Putin who was also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2014, more than doubled his personal fortune from $1 billion to $2.6 billion over the last year. Despite the sanctions, revenues at his construction firm SGM Group surged more than 20% in 2015. The same year, the Russian Ministry of Transport granted SGM Group an exclusive contract to build a reported $3.7 billion bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized in a 2014 armed takeover. Construction of the bridge is scheduled to be completed in 2018, according to the ministry. Revenues at another Rotenberg company, fertilizer giant Minudobreniya, surged an estimated 52% in 2016....."

Russian Billionaires, Including Several Tied To Putin, Are Up $104 Billion In The Last Year

meanwhile Muscovite hospitals look like these:

Ад российских больниц

It's pretty much known, The reason progressives hate pudding so much is their own envious nature.
Very predictable

Envious? Of a monster? You right wingers are such tards. Putin got his money by forcing wealthy people to turn it over to him. Doesn't your kind LOOOOVE wealthy people and want to cut their taxes to -50% so they can "create jobs" because they are the "job CREATORS"?

Only right wingers are envious of a murderer. Only right wingers.

Putin forced people to turn their money over to the government? He sounds like a Democrats

no , he doesn´t , Muscovite oligarchs have never been that rich as they are in 2017

So the Muscovite oligarchs hacked Hillary's election?

 

[Moonglow]

When did Democrats discover they hate the Russians?

Up until a year ago, Democrats were sucking Russian penis like a Times Square prostitute.

Hillary and Bill took a huge bribe in exchange for Russia getting North American uranium supplies.

Obama told the Russians they needed to wait after the election so he could be more flexible.

Where's the outrage about that?

More lies about the uranium deal, no surprises..

 

[CrusaderFrank]

its funny to read western "useful idiots" , who say that Putin rid of OLIGARCHY and oligarchs... + its absolutely clear that putin is obsolete "wealthiest person in the world" . question, will ordinary Muscovite ever wake up?

"
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made waves this week when he briefly unseated Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg's tracker. The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. But according to Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, they’re nothing compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose personal fortune Browder “believes” to be $200 billion.

Browder, who made the claim before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, is one of the best authorities on Putin's business dealings. Browder was a major investor in Russia during the chaotic 1990s, when, according to Newsweek, he took stakes in former state-run enterprises such as Gazprom. During the same period, Browder cooperated with Putin in anticorruption efforts, but eventually found himself targeted by Putin. That conflict eventually led to the jailing and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and in turn to the Magnitsky Act sanctions against certain Russian oligarchs by the U.S."

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined


"
Russian billionaires are worth $104 billion more than they were last year, thanks to the recovery of commodity markets and an increase in the value of Russian currency. Many oligarchs got a boost on the heels of Donald Trump’s election as well. In total Russia’s 96 billionaires, including several connected to Vladimir Putin and at least one tied to Trump, are now worth a combined $386 billion, according to Forbes’ 2017 World’s Billionaires List.

“The cronies and commodity people have done well,” said Anders Aslund, who served as an economic advisor to the Russian government in the early 1990s and now works at the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council. “The commodity prices went up a bit in the last year, and therefore the fortunes are up.”

There are 19 more billionaires counted in this year’s total, including three newcomers to the list and 16 businessmen who had fallen off of it in recent years but returned in 2017. Only nine of Russia’s 96 billionaires lost money over the last year.



Three of the big gainers are alleged members of Putin’s inner circle. Gennady Timchenko, who owns an estimated 23% stake in natural gas producer Novatek, was listed at $16 billion this year, $4.6 billion more than he was in 2016. Shares of Novatek jumped 27% from February of 2016 to February of 2017, when Forbes locked in calculations for its billionaires lists the last two years. In 2014 the U.S. Department of the Treasury leveled sanctions against Timchenko, and alleged that Putin had invested in an oil trading firm he had cofounded. The Russian billionaire sold his 43% stake in the firm, Gunvor, one day before the U.S. Treasury Department issued its sanctions.

Construction titan Arkady Rotenberg, a onetime judo sparring partner of Putin who was also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2014, more than doubled his personal fortune from $1 billion to $2.6 billion over the last year. Despite the sanctions, revenues at his construction firm SGM Group surged more than 20% in 2015. The same year, the Russian Ministry of Transport granted SGM Group an exclusive contract to build a reported $3.7 billion bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized in a 2014 armed takeover. Construction of the bridge is scheduled to be completed in 2018, according to the ministry. Revenues at another Rotenberg company, fertilizer giant Minudobreniya, surged an estimated 52% in 2016....."

Russian Billionaires, Including Several Tied To Putin, Are Up $104 Billion In The Last Year

meanwhile Muscovite hospitals look like these:

Ад российских больниц

It's pretty much known, The reason progressives hate pudding so much is their own envious nature.
Very predictable

Envious? Of a monster? You right wingers are such tards. Putin got his money by forcing wealthy people to turn it over to him. Doesn't your kind LOOOOVE wealthy people and want to cut their taxes to -50% so they can "create jobs" because they are the "job CREATORS"?

Only right wingers are envious of a murderer. Only right wingers.

^ Loves Stalin, Mao, Fidel and has a Che poster in his room, but calls Putin a "monster"

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Im glad Putin is going to help again in the midterms

CrusaderFrank

I've said it before but damn - I still can't believe that AMERICANS have so blithely and cheerfully and openly sold out their own country.

You stupid stupid stupid people. Do you really believe YOU will gain anything in selling out your country?

Russia is not Communist but I remember when US citizens really did believe "better dead than red". Now you're falling all over yourselves to suck up to the architects of your own demise.

Stupid. Just god fucking damn stupid.

i prefer to use another term Putin´s "useful idiots"

^ They were talking about FDR and the Democrats

 

[Litwin]

its funny to read western "useful idiots" , who say that Putin rid of OLIGARCHY and oligarchs... + its absolutely clear that putin is obsolete "wealthiest person in the world" . question, will ordinary Muscovite ever wake up?

"
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made waves this week when he briefly unseated Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg's tracker. The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. But according to Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, they’re nothing compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose personal fortune Browder “believes” to be $200 billion.

Browder, who made the claim before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, is one of the best authorities on Putin's business dealings. Browder was a major investor in Russia during the chaotic 1990s, when, according to Newsweek, he took stakes in former state-run enterprises such as Gazprom. During the same period, Browder cooperated with Putin in anticorruption efforts, but eventually found himself targeted by Putin. That conflict eventually led to the jailing and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and in turn to the Magnitsky Act sanctions against certain Russian oligarchs by the U.S."

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined


"
Russian billionaires are worth $104 billion more than they were last year, thanks to the recovery of commodity markets and an increase in the value of Russian currency. Many oligarchs got a boost on the heels of Donald Trump’s election as well. In total Russia’s 96 billionaires, including several connected to Vladimir Putin and at least one tied to Trump, are now worth a combined $386 billion, according to Forbes’ 2017 World’s Billionaires List.

“The cronies and commodity people have done well,” said Anders Aslund, who served as an economic advisor to the Russian government in the early 1990s and now works at the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council. “The commodity prices went up a bit in the last year, and therefore the fortunes are up.”

There are 19 more billionaires counted in this year’s total, including three newcomers to the list and 16 businessmen who had fallen off of it in recent years but returned in 2017. Only nine of Russia’s 96 billionaires lost money over the last year.



Three of the big gainers are alleged members of Putin’s inner circle. Gennady Timchenko, who owns an estimated 23% stake in natural gas producer Novatek, was listed at $16 billion this year, $4.6 billion more than he was in 2016. Shares of Novatek jumped 27% from February of 2016 to February of 2017, when Forbes locked in calculations for its billionaires lists the last two years. In 2014 the U.S. Department of the Treasury leveled sanctions against Timchenko, and alleged that Putin had invested in an oil trading firm he had cofounded. The Russian billionaire sold his 43% stake in the firm, Gunvor, one day before the U.S. Treasury Department issued its sanctions.

Construction titan Arkady Rotenberg, a onetime judo sparring partner of Putin who was also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2014, more than doubled his personal fortune from $1 billion to $2.6 billion over the last year. Despite the sanctions, revenues at his construction firm SGM Group surged more than 20% in 2015. The same year, the Russian Ministry of Transport granted SGM Group an exclusive contract to build a reported $3.7 billion bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized in a 2014 armed takeover. Construction of the bridge is scheduled to be completed in 2018, according to the ministry. Revenues at another Rotenberg company, fertilizer giant Minudobreniya, surged an estimated 52% in 2016....."

Russian Billionaires, Including Several Tied To Putin, Are Up $104 Billion In The Last Year

meanwhile Muscovite hospitals look like these:

Ад российских больниц

It's pretty much known, The reason progressives hate pudding so much is their own envious nature.
Very predictable

Envious? Of a monster? You right wingers are such tards. Putin got his money by forcing wealthy people to turn it over to him. Doesn't your kind LOOOOVE wealthy people and want to cut their taxes to -50% so they can "create jobs" because they are the "job CREATORS"?

Only right wingers are envious of a murderer. Only right wingers.

Putin forced people to turn their money over to the government? He sounds like a Democrats

no , he doesn´t , Muscovite oligarchs have never been that rich as they are in 2017

So the Muscovite oligarchs hacked Hillary's election?

yes , and it was not just hacking , need a link?

 

[Litwin]

When did Democrats discover they hate the Russians?

Up until a year ago, Democrats were sucking Russian penis like a Times Square prostitute.

Hillary and Bill took a huge bribe in exchange for Russia getting North American uranium supplies.

Obama told the Russians they needed to wait after the election so he could be more flexible.

Where's the outrage about that?

Up until 2014....many useful idiots and just westerners "were sucking "Russian" penis like a Times Square prostitute."