Oligarch Profiles

Gleb Fetisov is a Russian-born economist, former senator and film producer. He held stakes in Alfa Group businesses and later owned the Moscow lender Moi Bank. In 2012 he co-founded an opposition party, the Green Alliance. In 2014 he was arrested on suspicion of fraud at the bank he had sold, and he spent about

Andrei Kosogov is a Russian financier who has worked in the Alfa Group since 1992. He was a senior manager of Alfa-Bank and one of the five founders of the investment company LetterOne. After the European Union sanctioned his partners Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven in 2022, he left LetterOne’s board and became the largest

Andrei Rappoport is a Russian investor who was the first chairman of the management board of Alfa-Bank. He then spent more than a decade in Russia’s electricity sector, at RAO UES and as head of the Federal Grid Company, and from 2011 to 2016 was president of the Skolkovo business school. Forbes now describes him

Airat Shaimiev is a businessman from Tatarstan and the elder son of Mintimer Shaimiev, the republic’s first president. Since 2008 he has run Tatavtodor, the state-owned road building company of Tatarstan. Until 2021 he was one of the owners of the TAIF group, whose refining and petrochemical business was merged into Sibur that year. We

Radik Shaimiev is a businessman from Tatarstan and the younger son of Mintimer Shaimiev, the republic’s first president. He was one of the owners of TAIF, a Kazan-based holding company with oil refining, petrochemical and energy assets. In 2021 he and the other TAIF owners exchanged control of the group for a stake in the

Samvel Karapetyan is a Russian-Armenian businessman who founded and owns the Tashir Group, a Moscow-based property, construction, energy and finance group. Until 2025 his group also ran Armenia’s electricity distributor, Electric Networks of Armenia. In June 2025 he was arrested in Armenia. He has been on trial there since April 2026 and denies the charges.

Sergei Kolesnikov is a Russian entrepreneur and the co-owner of TechnoNICOL, a producer of roofing, waterproofing and insulation materials that he founded in 1992 with his university friend Igor Rybakov. He runs the company’s production business. He is not on the US, UK, EU, Canadian or Swiss sanctions lists. Poland put him on its national

Farkhad Akhmedov is a Russian and Azerbaijani businessman who made his fortune in the gas sector. He founded the equipment supplier Tansley Trading in 1987 and held 49 percent of the gas producer Northgas until he sold the stake to Novatek in 2012. From 2004 to 2009 he sat in Russia’s Federation Council. In London

Dmitry Kamenshchik built a business empire around Domodedovo, one of Moscow’s main airports, starting with cargo flights in the early 1990s. He was its main owner until a Russian court transferred the airport to the state in June 2025. In 2016 he was arrested over security failures before the 2011 terrorist attack at the airport.

Andrey Melnichenko founded the fertiliser producer EuroChem and the coal company SUEK. On 9 March 2022, the day the European Union sanctioned him, he left both companies’ boards and withdrew as their beneficiary. Since then his wife Aleksandra has been the beneficiary of the trust that holds the stakes. Nine jurisdictions have sanctioned him, including