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Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina is an international billionaire businesswoman and a philanthropist of Russian origin. She is based in Austria. She was married to Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, until his death in 2019.
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business · Russian billionaire (born 1963) · entrepreneur · businessperson · also Elena Baturina, Yelena Baturina, Elena Nikolaevna Baturina, Baturina
Born 8 March 1963 · Q466610
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“I was astonished that an obvious lie about me could be printed by a British newspaper. It sparked a wave of negative press attention directed towards me by European and Russian media which was extremely unpleasant.”
Yahoo Finance: The Donizetti Songs Vol 5&6 produced with support from Elena Baturina, awarded ICMA's Best Vocal Album of the Year 2026
The Washington Post rated the claim ““She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”” Four Pinocchios.
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Viktor Baturin pleaded guilty to fraud and falsification of evidence and in November 2023, found guilty by the Simonovsky court of Moscow and sentenced to six years imprisonment and a fine of 500 thousand rubles
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Business Insider: Elena Baturina's Think-tank BE OPEN Launches Open Call #BEOPENUrbanGreen to promote greener and more sustainable urban life
The Sunday Times Rich List estimated Baturina's net worth to be £1
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Business Insider: Elena Baturina's Think-tank BE OPEN Launches Global Open Call #BEOPEN_at_home to Celebrate Creative Ideas That Help Battle Hardships of Self-isolation
Alexander Luzhkov, Yury Luzhkov's son from his previous marriage, became the sole owner of the estate
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Forbes announced that Baturina's position as the richest woman in Russia was overtaken by Tatyana Bakalchuk, the founder of Wildberries, with a net worth of $1
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After failing to appear before a court in December 2019, the court declared Baturina a "fugitive".
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Baturina's enterprise has launched the first ESCO (Energy Services Company) project in Cyprus
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And 2019, her net worth was estimated at $1
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The hotel was sold to an Austrian investor
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Another case was initiated against Viktor Baturin for attempted fraud of a large scale and two counts of evidence falsification in a civil case
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Baturina was a trustee for the Mayor's Fund for London from 2017 to 2019.
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For the Garden of Wonders exposition dedicated to redesigning defunct perfume brands
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With support from the Government and ministries of India, BE OPEN created an important exhibition of works by promising local designers in Delhi to encourage artisans to explore alternative ways of using traditional skil
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Through an offshore company domiciled in Gibraltar
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With a multi-sensory experience, with a focus on synaesthesia
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Baturina runs the BE OPEN Foundation she set up in 2012.
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Following reconstruction work, Baturina opened the Quisisana Palace in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
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And funded by Yelena Baturina with the “aim to harness the brainpower of creative leaders through a system of conferences, competitions, exhibitions, master classes and art events
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Since 2012, the BE OPEN Foundation has been the vehicle for Elena Baturina’s international philanthropic work.
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Baturina won a lawsuit against the British newspaper "The Sunday Times", which attributed to the Russian businesswoman the acquisition of Witanhurst estate in London, which is the second value after Buckingham Palace
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Baturina was named one of the largest taxpayers in Russia, the taxes to the state budget for 2009 amounted to 4 billion rubles
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Inteco launched the construction of the second academic building for the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov
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Baturina opened the New Peterhof Hotel in Saint Petersburg, which received a number of architectural awards
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Was dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev amidst still unproven accusations of corruption and mismanagement voiced on state run television
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The hotel achieved honorary status as the "Home of Laureus" awards in Austria, and became the official venue for the annual ceremony
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“The Best Investment and Construction Company in Russia in 2009”
The company begins cooperating with an outstanding Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill as part of the programme aimed at creating fundamentally new systems for mass housing in Russia
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“Architecture and Design Planning”
“Construction and Real Estate”
Baturina has had no contacts with her brother since a public conflict on business issues that occurred in 2007.
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The company's revenue, according to its own data, amounted to $1 billion
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Baturina was appointed Deputy Head for the inter-ministerial group under the national project "Affordable and Comfortable Housing for Russian citizens"
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Inteco sold its cement works for estimated US$800 000 to Eurocement Group in order to consolidate financial and administrative recourses that the company needed for the implementation of perspective construction programs
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Awarded Russian government prize for science and technology (2003).
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Inteco created a subsidiary "Strategy Construction Company", whose main objective was the construction of monolithic buildings
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Inteco acquired from a private person the controlling stake in one of the leading housebuilding factories in Moscow DSK-3
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The company won the contract for producing 85,000 seats for Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow's largest stadium
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Their first daughter, Elena, was born, followed in 1994 by Olga
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Founded Inteco, an investment and construction company
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Baturina married Yury Luzhkov
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Baturina founded her company, Inteco ("Inteko" (Интеко) in Russian), which focused on construction though it began as a plastics business
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Baturina launched her first enterprise with her elder brother Victor, primarily dealing with computer software and hardware
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When they were both serving at Mosgorispolkom, a Soviet-era municipal commission
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Born 1963-03-08.
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