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The

Oligarchs

Score Big

BY ANGEL AU-YEUNG,
BASED ON REPORTING BY SERGEY
TITOV FOR FORBES RUSSIA

GENNADY VIKTOR AT LEAST 15 Russian billionaires found a way to get in ARKADY ARAS
TIMCHENKO VEKSELBERG on the World Cup, which begins in their homeland on ROTENBERG AGALAROV
NET WORTH: $16 BIL $13.5 BIL June 14. hey either received contracts—just 6 of them $2.7 BIL $1.7 BIL
An engineering- Vekselberg, who No one landed a Agalarov, who once
and-construction reportedly had collected nearly $7 billion to construct or repair facilities bigger payday: The planned to build
firm owned by ties to a firm that and transportation infrastructure—or invested money to Putin pal got over a Trump Tower in
Timchenko, a close paid Donald Trump do things like run ticketing systems and provide internet $4 billion for a 425- Russia, received
ally of Vladimir lawyer Michael availability in stadiums. As the dollar igures from these mile highway—that $580 million to
Putin, received Cohen, spent $560 4 billionaires alone indicate, in Russia, the same old cro- won’t be finished in erect two stadiums.
$530 million for million to renovate time—and just over
two 45,000-seat airports in four nies are getting richer yet again. $1 billion to renovate
stadiums. cities. three airports.

SURREAL ESTATE
Robin Hood’s Hideout

BY SAMANTHA SHARF
PLENTY OF COUNTRY HOMES claim to have a storybook Forest, the new owner will get a 6,000-square-foot main house and
setting, but one 18th-century English manor comes with a library 2,300-square-foot guesthouse, both listed on the U.K.’s registry of
full of literary legacy. Legend has it Robin Hood irst met Friar historic buildings. Robin Hood isn’t the only literary hero connect-
Tuck behind Fountain Dale House, this 12-bedroom, 8-bathroom ed to the residence: Sir Walter Scott wrote parts of Ivanhoe here,
property in Nottinghamshire, England, now listed for about $2.4 and Washington Irving, author of e Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
million. In addition to acquiring 10 merry acres near Sherwood mentioned Fountain Dale in his Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey. MIKHAIL SVETLOV/GETTY IMAGES; ANDREY RUDAKOV/BLOOMBERG; VITALY NEVAR\TASS/GETTY IMAGES; MIKHAIL TERESHCHENKO\TASS/GETTY IMAGES

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