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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 ...
Pavel Yevgenyevich Prigozhin (Russian: Павел Евгеньевич Пригожин, born 18 June 1998) is a Russian businessman and mercenary who has led the Wagner Group since 2023. The son of prominent oligarch and mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin , he succeeded his father as the leader of the Wagner Group a month and a half after the ...
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian: Борис Абрамович Березовский, Hebrew: בוריס ברזובסקי; 23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013), [5] [6] also known as Platon Elenin, [7] was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The trailer for “Anora,” Sean Baker’ Palme d’Or-winning tale of the love story between a sex worker and the son of a Russian oligarch, is finally here. The dramedy follows Anora (Mikey ...
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A Russian journalist who accused Putin of creating a police state, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006 outside her apartment. When five men were convicted of her murder, the judge found it was ...
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.
Mikhail Yuryevich Lesin (Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Лесин; 11 July 1958 – 5 November 2015) was a Russian political figure, media executive and advisor to president Vladimir Putin. [1] In 2006, he was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", one of Russia's highest state decorations for civilians.