ROTENBERG Arkady Romanovich (b.1951) alongside his brother, Boris Rotenberg, is co-owner of the Stroygazmontazh (SGM) group, the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia. Born in Leningrad, in his youth, he practiced judo in the same group as Vladimir Putin
KOLBIN Peter Viktorovich (b. 1952) is Putin’s childhood friend who turned out one of his “wallets”. Peter Kolbin got a job as a butcher in a Leningrad deli. He worked at this place for a quarter of a century, and when his childhood friend became president, Kolbin’s life changed dramatically.
KUZMICHEV Alexei Viktorovich (b. 1962 in Kirov) enrolled at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS) in 1983, where he met German Khan and Mikhail Fridman, his future business partners. In his first year of study, Kuzmichev became a secretary of the Komsomol organization and joined the Communist Party. He graduated from the Institute in 1988 and worked with Friedman and later Khan in the cooperatives Courier, Alpha-photo, and Alpha-Eco until 1989. The last two cooperatives provided household services and sold carpets, copy machines, and computers.
Russian billionaire Alexei Shepel was injured in an accident in Moscow. According to various estimates, six to nine cars collided on Rublevsky Highway. The culprit of the accident was probably the businessman himself, now he is in the hospital. As a result of the accident, three people were injured, one of them was seriously injured, […]
Moscow vice-mayors Pyotr Biryukov and Vladimir Yefimov seem to support entrepreneur Pavel Te. According to the correspondent The Moscow Post, the Capital Group company of entrepreneur Pavel Te, represented by its subsidiary Investprofi, became the owner of six companies at once, which own the buildings of several car centers on Antonova-Ovseenko Street in Moscow. According […]
The Fonbet company may fall into a near-sports scandal involving the Russian criminal authority Sergey “Luchka” Lalakin. The authority controls the betting office through his son Maxim Lalakin. Fonbet has decided what preferences will be given to the betting business. We are talking about table tennis, which has long been popularized in Europe and the […]
Methods of unfair competition of some pharmaceutical companies in the Russian market of bioadditives can hit the pharmaceutical sovereignty of the country. All this allows Western concerns to displace the domestic manufacturer of dietary supplements. It seems that representatives of the authorities can also be attributed to lovers of dishonest play. While the richest of […]
The information that appeared in the media about the hospitalization of the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky is gossip and rumors. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, deputy chairman of the LDPR faction Yaroslav Nilov. “I can’t confirm this information to you, as it’s […]
On November 25, 2021, an explosion occurred at the Listvyazhnaya coal mine, killing 51 people and injuring more than a hundred. The director and his deputy were arrested, during the investigation violations were immediately revealed – for example, the acts on the inspection of the mine were drawn up without an inspection. Among those arrested […]
The jury of the Moscow Regional Court did not accept as evidence the main argument of the investigation in the case of a native of Ingushetia, Dulat Youlo, better known as Akhmed Sutuly. It is reported by “Kommersant”. The prosecution presented a thieves’ “run” (message) from the alleged head of the criminal world of Russia, […]
