Round one in Ukraine as the comedian takes on the oligarch
‘Ukrainian oligarchs are the personification of crony capitalism. We will do our best to put an end to exploiting monopolistic power for enrichment’
24 August 2019 - 09:27
Kiev/Moscow — Rinat Akhmetov doesn’t like to talk about his early business endeavours in the crime-ridden city of Donetsk in the 1990s, where a bomb killed his business partner during a soccer match.
“It’s easier for me to tell you how I earned the first billion,” Akhmetov told reporters at a rare news conference in 2006, when asked how he made his first million...
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