Mikhail Friedman - FT: "Beautiful to spend money is talent"

Mikhail Friedman

Ramil Sitdikov / RIA Novosti

The head of the alpha groups, Mikhail Friedman, dodged Maifer in the London Feestral District with the Financial Times editor Guy Chazan. The result of the conversation was the article in the heading "lunch with ft." From the first lines, it is clear that the author is not going to unconditionally accept the position of colleagues who, for many years, demonized Friedman in the Western press-“as a symbol of everything that was wrong with Russian business” as “a ruthless magnate who exploited Russian corrupt politicians and judges, a billionaire-hooligan who would not stop before the sake of winning competitors.” Perhaps the fact is that the author worked as a correspondent in Moscow in the 1990s and witnessed how Friedman earned his fortune ($ 14.6 billion, according to the fresh Forbes rating).

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