Roman Abramovich: politician, businessman, fan and defendant
Roman Abramovich: politician, businessman, fan and defendant
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One of the richest men in Russia, Roman Abramovich, is celebrating his 45th birthday on October 24. According to media reports, the billionaire will spend the... 24.10.2011, Sputnik International
One of the richest men in Russia, Roman Abramovich, is celebrating his 45th birthday on October 24. According to media reports, the billionaire will spend the day on board his pleasure boat The Eclipse, the world’s biggest, in company of family and friends.
One of the richest men in Russia, Roman Abramovich, is celebrating his 45th birthday on October 24. According to media reports, the billionaire will spend the day on board his pleasure boat The Eclipse, the world’s biggest, in company of family and friends.
One of the richest men in Russia, Roman Abramovich, is celebrating his 45th birthday on October 24. According to media reports, the billionaire will spend the day on board his pleasure boat The Eclipse, the world’s biggest, in company of family and friends.
Born on October 24, 1966, in Saratov, Abramovich was orphaned at an early age and brought up by his paternal relatives in Syktyvkar and Ukhta, northern Russia. He moved to Moscow in 1974 and graduated from the Moscow State Legal Academy in 2000.
Roman Abramovich co-founded Sibneft Oil Company in 1995, joined the board of directors of Noyabrskneftegaz Company in 1996, and was put at the head of Sibneft’s Moscow Office in the same year. Shareholders elected him to Sibneft panel of directors in September 1996.
Mr. Abramovich was elected to the Third State Duma on December 19, 1999. Photo: Third State Duma deputies Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich attending a plenary meeting.
On December 24, 2000, Roman Abramovich won the election for governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Area, gaining 90% of the vote. In October 2005, the Chukotka Duma unanimously returned him as governor upon presentation of his candidacy by the Russian president.
In 2003, Mr Abramovich bought Chelsea, the then near bankrupt UK football club, paying its debts and bringing in high-pay players. The move was widely covered by the media in the UK and Russia.
According to the Forbes’ March 2008 ratings, Mr. Abramovich’s personal fortune amounted to $23.5 billion or the second biggest in Russia and 15th biggest in the world.
In March 2009, however, the Forbes rated his fortune at $8.5 billion, thus relegating him to the 51st place among the richest men in the world. The Journal of Finance named him among the top three richest men in Russia in 2010, estimating his fortune at $17 billion. With this money he can bankroll Chelsea for at least another 100 years.
On his birthday Mr. Abramovich is officially a defendant at the High Court of London, with the plaintiff, Boris Berezovsky, demanding that his former business partner pay him more than two billion pounds sterling as a compensation for a number of Russian assets he had sold.
Forecasts say the trial is likely to last for four months or longer. Photo: Boris Berezovsky posing in front of the High Court of London.
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