In particular, representatives of the founder of the social network VKontakte and Telegram messenger Pavel Durov asked about it.
A number of billionaires “connected to the Russian Federation” really don’t want Forbes to call them citizens of the Russian Federation, focusing on foreign citizenship: in recent months, this trend has been growing.
In particular, this was asked by representatives of the founder of VKontakte and Telegram Pavel Durov, according to American Forbes.
“Pavel left Russia many years ago and has no intention of returning,” said a spokesman for the businessman.
Durov has been featured on Forbes lists for several years as a representative of Russia, but now he wants to be noticed that since last year he has been a French citizen (he is also reported to have citizenship of St. Kitts and Nevis). ).
They also demanded not to call Russian businessmen Igor and Dmitry Bukhman, founders of Playrix, which develops mobile games, Nikolai Storonsky, co-founder of Revolut, and investor Yuri Milner.
The Bukhmans point out that they moved to Israel a few years ago, while Storonsky’s representatives remind him that he is a British citizen.
Yuri Milner asserted that since 2014 he had not been to Russia and had no assets on its territory, and in 1999 he received Israeli citizenship.
Forbes emphasizes that requests from businessmen related to the Russian Federation not to be listed as “Russian businessmen” have been received previously, but over the past few months the number of such requests has increased, including against against the backdrop of sanctions imposed against the Russians. Federation due to the invasion of Ukraine.
Recall that after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Durov said that he was of Ukrainian origin and that the conflict in Ukraine was personal to him.
Source: korrespondent
