Megayachts have always been a status indicator for Russian billionaires. A number of participants in the Forbes list of Russia’s richest businessmen have such vessels. The absence of such vessels among the list’s representatives is rather an exception. After February 2022, the boats of Russian oligarchs fell into unpleasant circumstances – some of them were confiscated, others are now moored…
Russian oligarchs refers to a group of businessmen from the post-Soviet space who made their fortunes in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They own large industrial enterprises, media empires and financial organisations. Such business oligarchs are linked with political elites, and it is believed that they use their capital to lobby for personal business interests: they…
