Being in jail has not prevented Mikhail Khodorkovsky from topping the Russian "golden hundred" list of businessmen according to Forbes
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Russian Forbes Has Compiled Its List of the Country's Moneybags
Today Forbes magazine will publish the first Russian "golden hundred" list of businessmen - the owners of the country's largest fortunes.
Forbes' Russian "golden hundred" includes 36 billionaires, while the fortunes of the remaining 64 magnates are estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars. As before, the richest Russian is former head of YUKOS and now prisoner in Matrosskaya Tishina, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Forbes estimates his fortune at $15.2 billion. At the bottom of the list is former LUKOIL senior executive Ralif Safin with $210 million.
When the American edition of Forbes published its list of the world's richest people on February 27, there were only 25 Russians on it. That is, "according to Forbes", the number of billionaires in Russia increased 40% in two and half months, and their total share from $79.4 billion to $110 billion.
Newcomers include Alfa Bank President Petr Aven and Aleksei Kuzmichev (Alfa Group is named as the source of their fortunes), head of Millhouse David Davidovich, Sibneft senior executive Andrei Gorodilov and Senator Valery Oif (capital source - Sibneft), owner of ZAO Inteko Elena Baturina (wife of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov), and Deputy Aleksandr Lebedev (National Reserve Corporation), among others.
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