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Russia more trusted than West in Africa – tycoon

Russia enjoys the trust of most African nations in stark contrast to their former Western colonial masters, Russian businessman Konstantin…

8 months ago

Sanctioned Russian oil tycoon resigns

Russia’s largest independent oil company Lukoil announced on Thursday that its president, Vagit Alekperov, is stepping down from his post…

2 years ago

Russian tycoon wants pension age lowered to 45

Russia needs a new pension reform that would lower the pension age to 45, businessman Oleg Deripaska, founder of aluminum…

2 years ago

Sanctions on tycoon’s empire dropped except for yacht and jet

The US Treasury has withdrawn businessman Alisher Usmanov’s companies from sanctions lists, on the same day it imposed them, leaving…

2 years ago

Italy seizes yacht of Russian steel tycoon

Italian authorities have seized a massive yacht owned by Russian metals magnate Alexey Mordashov in a bid to enforce the…

2 years ago

Russian tycoon settles ‘Putin’s People’ libel suit

The billionaire brought the suit in response to the 2020 book ‘Putin’s People’, in which author Catherine Belton chronicled Putin’s…

2 years ago

John McAfee’s lawyer says anti-virus tycoon showed no indication he would take his own life

Javier Villalba told Reuters on Thursday that he “had constant telephone contact” with McAfee and “at no point had he…

3 years ago

Cybersecurity tycoon Kaspersky claims CIA hackers could actually be behind US Colonial Pipeline attack blamed on Russian group

After a massive systems failure caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down, Natalya Kaspersky, the founder and former CEO of…

3 years ago

Mars for Musk: Bill Gates uninterested in battling Tesla tycoon to be first on red planet

Gates complained big-time Earth entrepreneurs weren’t doing enough to fix “the hard stuff: steel, cement, meat” on Earth while instead…

3 years ago

Tesla tycoon Elon Musk declared richest person in the world, edging out Amazon’s Bezos

Musk was officially named the richest person on the planet on Thursday, not-so-narrowly edging out Bezos thanks to a 4.8…

3 years ago