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Vladimir Lisin tops annual list of Russian tycoons · 2010-02-15 19:02
Finance magazine published the annual list of Russian billionaires. The list includes the names of 500 individuals, whose fortune is evaluated at not less than 3.3 billion rubles.
It has a new winter this year. Russia's richest man is Vladimir Lisin, a non-public Russian entrepreneur, the chairman of board of director of Novolipetsk Steel. Lisin owns the fortune worth $18.8 billion, which puts him ahead of last year's winner Mikhail Prokhorov, the president of Onexim Group, with $17.85 billion.
Roman Abramovich, the former governor of Chukotka and the owner of Chelsea Football Club, came in third with $17 billion.
Senator Suleiman Kerimov, the owner of Nafta Moskva investment group, is fourth with $14.5 billion, followed by TNK-BP interim CEO Mikhail Fridman ($14.3 billion), RusAL CEO and owner Oleg Deripaska ($13.8 billion) and mining magnate Alisher Usmanov ($12.4 billion).
LUKoil CEO Vagit Alekperov ($10.65), as well as Severstal CEO Alexei Mordashov ($10 billion) and Interros holding chairman Vladimir Potanin ($9.95 billion) have also made it into the top ten, Pravda reports.
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