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Mikhail Fridman
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Ukrainian-born, Russian–Israeli tycoon and oligarch. He is one of the co-founders of Alfa-Group, a multinational Russian conglomerate. According to Forbes, he was the second-richest Russian as of 2013, moving down to ninth-richest Russian in 2023. In May 2017, he was also ranked as Russia's most important businessman by bne IntelliNews. In February 2024, Fridman had…
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business · Russian–Israeli billionaire businessman and oligarch (born 1964) · entrepreneur · banker · engineer · Russian oligarch · also Mikhail Fridman, Mikhail Maratovich Fridman, Fridman
Born 21 April 1964 · Q732142
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 4 entries
Yahoo: Sanctioned Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman says 'there is no oligarchs' club'
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Yahoo: Sanctioned Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman says he is 'practically under house arrest' and has to eat at home as his credit cards have been blocked
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The EU imposed sanctions on Fridman in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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“damage two nations who have been brothers for hundreds of years”
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2019· 2 entries
Reported net worth: $15B (as of 2019).
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Mikhail Fridman acquired a 50% stake in one of the suppliers of computing devices for the Russian defense industry via the structures affiliated with A1 investment company
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2017· 2 entries
Fridman, via LetterOne, invested $3 billion in Pamplona Capital Management, a private-equity firm that was founded by Alexander Knaster, the former CEO of Alfa-Bank, and which Fridman had invested in previously
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Funded a £100,000 Indigo Prize for new economic-measurement models based on the paradigm
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2016· 3 entries
Fridman announced that by virtue of his will, his entire fortune will be left to charity
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Fridman coined the term "Indigo Era", for his theory of a global shift to an emerging era of economics based on creativity and digital skills rather than on natural resources
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In 2016 Fridman announced that by virtue of his will, his entire fortune will be left to charity.
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2015· 2 entries
Has been a member of its supervisory board
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Moved to London, and by 2016 had purchased Athlone House for £65 million to be his primary residence
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2013· 4 entries
Sold his stake in the company and co-founded the international investment company LetterOne (L1)
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TNK-BP was sold to Russia's state-owned energy group Rosneft for $56 billion, with Fridman and his Russian partners receiving $28 billion for their 50% stake, at the height of crude oil prices
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And Fridman became the company's chairman
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LetterOne also formed L1 Energy, an energy investment vehicle, initially focused particularly on undervalued international oil and gas assets during the slump in oil prices
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2012· 3 entries
Is a million-dollar annual prize for Jewish contributions to humanity
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Fridman sold his entire stake in MegaFon for $5 billion
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Fridman partnered with American real-estate developer Jack Rosen in a joint venture to invest $1 billion in distressed real estate properties along the U
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2011· 1 entry
Founded the annual Alfa Jazz Fest, which is funded by Alfa-Bank, in his place of birth Lviv, Ukraine, and in 2014 launched the Alfa Future People Festival, an annual electronic music festival held on the banks of the
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2007· 1 entry
Fridman, along with Stan Polovets, Alexander Knaster, Petr Aven, and German Khan, founded the Genesis Philanthropy Group, whose purpose is to develop and enhance Jewish identity among Russian-speaking Jews worldwide
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2005· 3 entries
Altimo hired the Haley Barbour-founded BGR public relations firm, which then hired a security firm, Richard Burt's Due Diligence, in order to infiltrate and obtain information about the KPMG independent investigations fu
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A United States district court in Washington, D
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And although the merger of Vimpelcom and Kyivstar was achieved in 2010, conflicts with Telenor over control of Vimpelcom lasted seven years in total
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2004· 2 entries
Was included in the Financial Times list of 25 business executives named "Leaders of the New Europe"
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Was included in Fortune magazine's list of the Power 25 in Europe and was given GQ Russia's Man of the Year national award in 2006
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2003· 2 entries
Fridman received the Golden Plate Award from the Academy of Achievement in Washington, presented by former U
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Two "elite dachas" owned by the Russian government were sold below market value, one to Fridman and another to former Russian prime-minister Mikhail Kasyanov
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2001· 1 entry
Alfa purchased a strategic ownership interest in Vimpelcom, a large cellular operator in Russia, and Fridman joined Vimpelcom's board of directors
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1999· 2 entries
By Alexander Girda and Andrey Rogachev, Alfa Group founded the X5 Retail Group in 2006
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Fridman had thwarted BP by seizing BP's stake in the Siberian oil company Sidanko, via bankruptcy maneuvers widely regarded as unfair practices
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1997· 1 entry
Fridman had collaborated with Len Blavatnik and Viktor Vekselberg to purchase the state-owned TNK (Tyumen Oil Company), an oil company in Siberia, for $800 million
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1996· 1 entry
Fridman was one of the founders of the Russian Jewish Congress, and he has been an active member since then, including having been its vice president and head of its cultural committee
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1994· 2 entries
Aven became president and chairman of Alfa-Bank
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And it was our yacht that he chose to go after being discharged from hospital"
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1991· 1 entry
Co-founded Alfa-Bank, one of the largest private banks in Russia
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1989· 1 entry
The three partners founded Alfa-Eco (Alfa-Echo, Alfa-Eko, Alfa-Ekho), a commodities and eventually oil trading firm, and Alfa Capital (Alfa Kapital), an investment firm
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1988· 2 entries
Along with German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev, Fridman co-founded Alfa-Photo (also transliterated as Alfa-Foto), which imported photography chemicals
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Fridman established a window-washing business, an apartment rental agency for foreigners, a company that sold used computers, and a company that imported cigarettes and perfumes, with fellow friends from college, employi
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1986· 1 entry
Studied at National University of Science and Technology (1986).
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1964· 3 entries
Born 1964-04-21.
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In Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, where he spent his youth
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“s defense industry. In May 2018 Fridman and Aven spoke to an off-the-record private dinner at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. The invitation and the privacy of the meeting drew criticism of the Atlantic Council from a group of 13 Russian and U.S. experts and activists, who wrote that”
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