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It referred to a previous investigation by USA Today, which concluded that "38 Russian businessmen and oligarchs close to the Kremlin died in mysterious or suspicious circumstances between 2014 and 2017." [5] The phenomenon has been called "sudden Russian death syndrome" or "sudden oligarch death syndrome", a play on sudden arrhythmic death ...
The onetime Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko died in 2006, about three weeks after drinking tea poisoned with polonium-210, a rare and potent radioactive isotope, during a meeting ...
Shot twice in the head with a Glock 26 by a Russian contract killer. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Dmitry Utkin, Valery Chekalov, and seven others: Russian oligarch and leader of Wagner Group, Wagner commanders, air crew 2023-08-24 Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast Russia: 10 (including 7 targets) 0 Killed in plane crash after likely bomb exploded on board.
Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg (Russian: Аркадий Романович Ротенберг; born 15 December 1951) is a Russian billionaire businessman and oligarch.With his brother Boris Rotenberg, he was co-owner of the Stroygazmontazh (S.G.M. group), the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia.
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Upon his arrival in London, he continued to support the Russian oligarch in exile, Boris Berezovsky, in his media campaign against the Russian government. [14] Just two weeks before his death, Litvinenko accused Putin of ordering the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human rights activist. [15] [16]
[3] [7] In 2004 his son Nikolay Smolensky purchased the sportscar maker TVR. [3] (The company went bankrupt in 2007. [8]) In the period from 2006 to 2011, the former oligarch became interested in literary work and published seven books in the political thriller genre. The opuses were based on real stories from the life of the Russian elite. [9]
Daniel Treisman proposed using a term "silovarch" (silovik and oligarch) for a new class of Russian oligarchs with backgrounds in Russian military and intelligence. [39] On 30 January 2018, the U.S. Treasury published a "list of oligarchs" as part of a document known as the "Putin list" which was compiled under the requirement of the CAATSA Act.