Oligarchs who amassed their fortunes by remaining loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin are beginning to speak out against his invasion of Ukraine
in an interview that he agrees with Fridman, but added “I am not going to make any political statements.”
Then on Monday, the same day he was hit with EU sanctions, Russia’s richest person, steel baron Alexei Mordashov, called the fighting a “tragedy of two fraternal peoples” and said that they must do everything necessary to get out of the conflict to stop the bloodshed. “It is terrible that Ukrainians and Russians are dying, people are suffering hardships, the economy is collapsing.
Dmitry and Igor Bukhman, the brothers behind video game developer Playrix, which makes free mobile-app games such as Homescapes and Fishdom,they would give each of their 4,000 employees an extra paycheck and emphasized that violence"can never be the solution to a problem." Igor Rybakov, the billionaire co-owner of roofing and insulation producer Technonicol, said on his YouTube channel last week that he understands “the point of no return has been passed and this will be a big story that will touch the lives of millions of people. It’s sad.” At the same time, he told viewers not to panic and to buy depreciated securities of Russian companies. “All this pisses me off. I want all this uncertainty to end,” he added, according to Forbes Russia.
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