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Russia ENERGY 18 22 andRey andReeV
NeWcomer: this russian entrepre-
METALS & MINING
16 100% neur is the ultimate matchmaker. in
2004 he founded mamba (renamed
FINANCE & INVESTMENTS wamba), a russian online dating site
GDP: $1.6 TRIL 8
PoPulation: 144 MIL InheRITed & gROWIng that now has 31 million users in 15
MANUFACTURING InheRITed countries. two years later he started
Billionaires: 102 (+6 VS. 2017) SeLf-Made
total net worth: $410.8 BIL (+$24.5 BIL VS. 2017) Badoo, today the world’s largest online
dating site, with over 377 million users
in 47 languages across 190 countries.
most recently he invested $10 million
Dmitry rybolovlev in seed money for a 79% stake in Bum-
ble, america’s fastest-growing dat-
trophy: Rybolovlev sold Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” for a ing-app company, with over 28
rec ord-breaking $450 million in November; the buyer was reported to million registered users.
be Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Despite the
high price, Rybolovlev is suing the art dealer, Yves Bouvier, who brokered
the original sale to him for $127.5 million in 2013. Rybolovlev, who acquired
38 works through Bouvier, alleges that he was overcharged by an estimated $1 bil-
lion for the combined purchases. Bouvier denies any wrongdoing.

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zor reportedly threatened in Vagit alekperov 
february to block youtube and $16.4 BIL #78 oil
instagram if the sites did not gennady Timchenko 
moscow take down content showing $16 BIL #82 oil, Gas
77 aluminum tycoon Deripaska on Vladimir potanin 
a yacht with politician sergei $15.9 BIL #83 metals LeOnId fedUn
Prikhodko and nastya rybka, a andrey Melnichenko 
21-year-old social media figure $15.5 BIL #88 coal, fertilizer trophy: The Lukoil ex-
who has called herself Deripas- Mikhail fridman  ecutive invested a reported
ka’s mistress on instagram. the $15.1 BIL #93 oil, BankinG, $500 million in Otkritie Arena,
ultimatum came after he won telecom a soccer stadium in Moscow. The
EXPATRIATEs an injunction in russia in feb- Viktor Vekselberg  stadium, which hosted its first game
11 in 2014, is home to Fedun’s soccer
ruary, citing invasion of privacy. $14.4 BIL #99 metals, enerGy
instagram complied in russia. alisher Usmanov  team, FC Spartak Moscow. It will
youtube has not yet. $12.5 BIL #118 steel, telecom, host matches during the 2018 FIFA
investments World Cup.
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