Litwin
Diamond Member
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 + its absolutely clear that putin is obsolete "wealthiest person in the world" .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 The ordinary , poor Muscovites ever wake up?
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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
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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
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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
