Talent

Doesn't look in the teeth

The Kiev publication "Correspondent" recently published the top 100 most influential Ukrainians. The most fantastic rise on this list was made six years ago by an unknown entrepreneur, a dentist by training, Alexander Yanukovych. The eldest son of the President of Ukraine immediately rose by 26 positions, behind only his father, who brought him to power as the richest man in the country, Rinat Akhmetov, and the head of his father’s administration, Sergei Levochkin. If you ask what 39-year-old Yanukovych Jr. owns, the correct answer will be: a little bit of everything. In his empire, Mako-Holding, there is trade, construction, real estate, stakes in enterprises, and, of course, a bank - the All-Ukrainian Development Bank. Somehow it coincided so well that the heyday of the former dentist’s entrepreneurial activity occurred in the last three years, when his father was president. The authors of the rating consider Alexander Yanukovych’s main talent to be capitalization not of material, but of human assets. In business, he is associated with billionaire Akhmetov and Deputy Prime Minister Kolesnikov; in key places - in the Central Bank, the State Tax Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs - there are people directly or indirectly connected with him. There have been cases in the former USSR when, with the resignation of their parents, children lost their business and sometimes even their homeland, but this is unlikely to happen to the son of the Ukrainian president. On the one hand, his father is not going to go anywhere, diligently clearing out the political clearing. On the other hand, the redistribution of property is not at all in the interests of the Ukrainian elite.

Pavel Aprelev

Magazine "Ogonyok" No. 36 dated September 10, 2012, p. 6

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Alexander Yanukovych, banker