The fortunes of the richest Russians increased by $50 billion in 2023, Bloomberg has calculated
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Lukoil founder Vagit Alekperov became the richest - by $9.29 billion, his fortune increased to $24.7 billion.
Co-founder of Eurochem and SUEK Andrey Melnichenko became richer by 5.67 billion dollars (his fortune increased to 17.2 billion dollars).
Vladimir Lisin, chairman of the board of directors of NLMK, earned 4.08 billion dollars for the year, (fortune of 23.9 billion dollars).
Alekperov and Melnichenko have come under personal sanctions from Britain, Australia and the EU. Both decided to leave their positions in their companies. Vladimir Lisin managed to avoid being placed on the sanctions lists.
However, not all Russian oligarchs were able to multiply their fortunes. According to BBI, Akron shareholder Vyacheslav Kantor, lost 0.149 billion dollars and his fortune shrank to 6.21 billion. Kantor is in the European, British and Swiss sanctions lists. The drop in his wealth is due to the fact that the Polish authorities confiscated his share in Poland's largest fertilizer company Grupa Azoty.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index traditionally assesses the wealth of the richest people on the planet based on the value of shares of companies owned by businessmen. The rating includes 500 entrepreneurs, 25 of whom are Russians. A year earlier, the rating showed that the Russian oligarchs in the first year of the war impoverished by 94 billion dollars, so they have not yet fully recovered from the fall.
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Memorial to the fallen Moldovan soldiers of the Transnistrian War in Chisinau. Photo: Alexander Moisseenko
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