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Profiles: Russia's rich list
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The following are profiles of Russia's so-called oligarchs, a group of businessmen who made their fortune following the fall of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Khodorkovsky
• Age: 40 • A former Communist Youth League leader, now Russia's richest businessman with an estimated net worth of $8 billion • Head of Yukos Oil, which became the world's fourth-largest oil company following a merger with rival Russian firm Sibneft • Founded Menatep bank in 1987 • Bought Yukos at a state auction in 1995 for the bargain price of $350 million • Made his first millions in the early 1990s, when Menatep acquired shares in companies that were privatized at knock-down prices • Took 26th place in Forbes magazine's billionaires list last year
Roman Abramovich • Age: 37 • Businessman and Governor of the Russian province of Chukotka • Made his fortune initially through oil deals in the early 1990s • Estimated net worth of $5.7 billion • One of the major shareholders in the Russian oil firm Sibneft, which merged with Yukos Oil • Owner of the Chelsea football club, bought in July 2003
Boris Berezovsky • Age: 57 • Former media baron and car salesman, rose to become a Kremlin power-broker under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union • Sought in Russia on fraud charges, but granted political asylum in Britain last September • Main business interests remain in the car industry, media, banks, energy and a stake in national airline Aeroflot
Vladimir Gusinsky • Age: 51 • Multimillionaire, media tycoon and former theater director • Once controlled Russia's biggest independent media empire including radio stations, a newspaper, magazines and the influential NTV television network • Arrested in Greece last August on fraud charges, but charges were subsequently dropped
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