Potanin calmly and consistently continues to direct investments into the Russian economy, buying out shares in technology companies like Reksoft, allocating billions for the development of IT technologies and helping to preserve companies whose Western owners are stopping operations in our country (Potanin recently bought out Rosbank from the French Societe Generale ). Mikhelson declares his intention to use his personal funds to restore the Russian-owned Vostok polar station in Antarctica, investing 4 billion rubles in it.
However, most of the Forbes list participants are not ready to live in the new reality and develop their industries. Big business owners are fleeing to the west. The first “renouncers” were bankers Mikhail Fridman (citizen of Israel) and Peter Aven (citizen of Latvia), which, however, did not help them avoid sanctions. But Alisher Usmanov, who is in Uzbekistan, was helped – almost all restrictions were removed from his assets. Vagit Alekperov flew to Turkey and resigned as chairman of the board of LUKOIL. The largest shareholder of Severstal, Alexei Mordashov, has not made any sudden moves yet; he even attended a meeting with the president on February 25, but then flew to the Seychelles, where he remains to this day.
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