Full name:
Kusnirovich Michail
Kusnirovich Michail Date of Birth
3 October 1966
Kusnirovich Michail Citizenship
Russia
Kusnirovich Michail Professional field/official position
Russian entrepreneur and chairman of the supervisory board of the Bosco di Ciliegi Group. Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber of Moscow
Kusnirovich Michail biography
KUSNIROVICH Mikhail Ernestovich (b. 1966 in Moscow) graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology with a degree in chemical engineering in 1989. Then, together with student friends Sergei Evteev, Evgeni Balakin, and Mikhail Vlasov, he created the East and West Moscow International House company, the first project of which was the organization of an amusement park in Gorky Park.
- In 1989-1991, he worked at the IMA-Press publishing house (the youth division of the Novosti press agency), where he was deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee. In the August days of 1991, 24-year-old Mikhail Kusnirovich was on the barricades at the Supreme Council (“White House”), where he defended young democracy during the August coup.
- At one of the business parties at that turbulent time, Kusnirovich met Serilio Montanari, president of SIMA, Italy’s largest men’s clothing company. Soon, Kusnirovich signed a contract with him. A few months later, in March 1992, Kusnirovich and his fellows opened the first apparel store in Petrovsky Passage. In 1993, Kusnirovich received a 50% stake in the new company Bosco di Ciliegi (Cherry Forest).
- In 2001, Bosco di Ciliegi signed the first contract with the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). Bosco di Ciliegi acted as the exclusive equipment supplier for the Russian Olympic team at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Soon after, ROC and Bosco di Ciliegi officially announced a partnership agreement for the Olympics in Athens and the Winter Olympics in Turin. Bosco di Ciliegi was also the exclusive equipment supplier for the Russian Olympic team, as well as the general sponsor of the ROC. In December 2017, Mikhail Kusnirovich decided to withdraw the Bosco brand from the uniform of the International Olympic Committee at the 2018 Olympics. He explained this by the suspension of the membership of the Russian Olympic Committee in the IOC.
- In 2019, Kusnirovich was among the list of 200 richest people in Russia, compiled by Forbes magazine. His fortune is estimated at $500 million. Kusnirovich manages more than 200 single-brand and multi-brand boutiques, as well as the Moscow GUM (the Upper Trading Rows), which is leased to Bosco di Ciliegi until 2059. The rental agreement was concluded without a tender, and its value declared a state secret. Since April 2013, he has been Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber of Moscow. In the 2018 presidential election, Kusnirovich was a confidant of President Putin.
Kusnirovich Michail crimes
Using corruption schemes and Putin’s support for gaining a non-competitive advantage in business (renting the Upper Trading Rows and outfitting the national team).
Long gone are the days when Kusnirovich fought for freedom. Now he is a loyal supporter of Putin and calls modern oppositionists who advocate fair elections provocateurs. He forbade the International Olympic Committee to use the Bosco logo (although he had won a competition for the supply of clothing for IOC employees) in revenge for the removal of the Russian team due to a doping scandal.
