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Oil & gas industry, banking, telecom, and investments in the privatization of Russia [10] 7: 161 Alisher Usmanov: Russia: 71 11.5 –US$6.9B: Steel, telecom, and investments in the privatization of Russia [11] 8: 173 Gennady Timchenko: Russia Finland Armenia: 72 11.3 –US$10.7B: Oil & gas industry and investments in the privatization of Russia ...
Novgorodian ushkuyniks capturing Kostroma, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century). The ushkuyniks (Russian: ушкуйники, romanized: ushkuyniki, sg. ушкуйник, ushkuynik), also spelled ushkuiniks, were medieval Novgorodian pirates who operated in the north of European Russia as well as along the Volga River until the 15th century.
Russia: A leader of a gang of river pirates, along the Don River region, of Russia and later, led an expedition, in the Russian conquest of Siberia, in the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Kristoffer Trondson: c. 1500–1565: c. 1535–1542: Norway: A Norwegian nobleman-turned pirate and privateer. Operated in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea ...
When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed those Russians known as “oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers. The ...
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. and others are sanctioning some of these Russian billionaires, targeting everything from yachts to real estate. The Richest Men in Russia — and ...
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The sanctioning of so-called oligarchs — wealthy Russians with strong political connections — comes as the U.S. and the West attempt to impose "maximum pain" on Russia to penalize it for its ...