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All the best-4 children. Part 1
Schizophrenia of time: fencing off the world and threatening the West with nuclear bombs, the Russian elite sends its children to Western universities - this was what Russian officials and billionaires did. Including - and from the "Kremlin list" of the United States
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This showed a new study of NT, which continues a series of publications of the magazine about the children of the Putin elite. ( See “All the best-children!” In No. 21 of June 20, 2011, “All the best-children-2” in No. 6 of February 23, 2015 and “All the best-children-3” No. 16-17 of May 21, 2017 ).
Children of ministers, deputies and oligarchs not only study, but also find work in Europe and the USA, get families there, remain to live. Based on geography, the domestic elite can be divided into three main categories: Atlantists (those who send their children to the United States), islanders (preferring the UK) and continentalists - who chose universities of old Europe. Atlantists prevail, which NT talks about in the first part of its study.
Lavrov, Abramovich and Luzhkov in the "Poyshch League"
The richest Russians choose for their offspring to study in the United States and, first of all, universities "League University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmuth College, Harvard University, The University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Yale University). All of them are located on the east coast.
and Ekaterina Lavrova
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Columbia University , located on Manhattan, was Alma Mater for many representatives of the world elite. Among its graduates are five founding fathers of the United States and the penultimate President of Barack Obama, many writers and scientists, in particular, 94 Nobel laureate. This educational institution has both humanitarian and technological specializations. The average cost of education there (in terms of domestic currency) 3.5 million rubles. per year.
This university was graduated from the daughter of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov - Catherine , who then went to receive a master to the London School of Economics, where she met her future wife, Alexander Vinokurov, who became a very successful businessman. Ekaterina Vinokurova for a long time headed the representative office of the English auction house Christi's in Moscow, and later created her own company engaged in art.
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Of the Russian billionaires, this university was chosen by Roman Abramovich ($ 9.1 billion, Evraz PLC*) for his eldest daughter Anna and Alexander Mamut (Polymetal, Rambler & Co, $ 2.5 billion) for his son Nikolai . About the 26-year-old Anna Abramovich is known a little: according to media reports , she still lives in the West, loves parties and was in a romantic relationship with celebrity both in London and in New York. Nikolai Mamut, together with his brother Peter and sister Esfirya, already in 2015 became the beneficiaries of A&N Capital Management Fund Limited, which owns a 3.6% of the father’s Polymetal.
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Another choice of children of the Russian elite is New York University (average training cost - 3 million rubles). One of his students was the daughter of the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov Olga (born in 1994). She began to receive the Higher Education of Luzhkov back in Moscow - at the Faculty of Faculty of Moscow State University, however, after the resignation of her father and leaving abroad, she decided to continue education in foreign educational institutions (she managed to learn, in particular, in the University College London). According to the data for 2016, she completed the training of the hotel business in New York and was supposed to defend the master's thesis. Despite her youth, she is already engaged in business - she opened her bar, Herbarium, near the Grand Tirolia in Kitsbuel (Austria), her mother, Elena Baturina ($ 1 billion, Inteco Management) gave her money for this project.
Victoria Michelson , born in 1992, daughter of Leonid Michelson ($ 18.4 billion, Novatek) studied here. She studied the history of art. In 2005, her name was named after the Victoria art gallery in Samara (her father’s native region). In 2016, she became the trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art-New Museum in New York.
Orphans - it is impossible, to our children - you can
The art of cinema - the subject of the special interest of Anastasia Fetisova , the daughter of the famous hockey player and State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Fetisov - with an income of 108 million rubles. In 2016, he turned out to be one of the richest parliamentarians. Anastasia studies at NYU Film School (3.4 million rubles per year). Training in English is clearly given to her easily, as she was born in the USA, and moved to her parents at the age of 12. Fetisova is a co-founder of a cinematic company in Moscow and previously studied at Fordham University in the same New York.
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Nearby, the place of training of Stepan Remezkova is a business school Hofstra University (the cost of training is 3.4 million rubles). His father is a Fetisov’s colleague in the lower house of parliament, the former vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Remezkov, co-author of the Law on the prohibition of adoption by the Americans of Russian orphans, as well as the Law on Foreign Agents. Before entering Hofstra, Stepan studied at the American military college Valley Forge Military Academy (the cost of training 2.8 million rubles). As stated on the website of the institution, this is a cadet school - a boarding house for boys (40% of graduates subsequently make a military career).
Remeskov, however, in Russia-judging by his account on LinkedIn, in 2013 he trained in Alfa Bank, before that he was busy in various financial and brokerage companies. The son of a deputy writes in social networks about his American study as follows: “Thanks to this excellent education, I acquired my fundamental life values: duty, honor, fidelity and courage.”
The son of a deputy writes about his American studies as follows: “Thanks to this excellent education, I acquired my fundamental life values: duty, honor, fidelity and courage”
The Kuban eco -defender Suren Gazaryan was the first to write about where the children of the chosen one study in his blog. He found out that another son of a deputy, Nikolai Remeskov, has been studying in the UK at the Malvern College private school since 2008, and the youngest daughter Remeskova, Masha, is studying in Vienna at a sports school.
Remeskov Sr. did not deny this, but stated that he did not consider the studies of children abroad reprehensible, but they are “patriotic”.
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All in the same New York was received by Anton Astakhov , the son of Pavel Astakhov , who for a long time (2009–2016) was a children's ombudsman. In 2009, Astakhov Jr. entered the European School of Economics (cost-3.2 million rubles per year). This university became the third for Anton, before that he managed to learn from the Oxford International College of ST CLARARE COLLEGE and the London Metropolitan College. He liked to study in New York : “When I studied in America, I really liked that the university was right on the Walt Street. This is the only university on this famous street. And my friends had all there were brokers and traders. ”
In 2011, Astakhov Jr. returned to Russia, where he became an assistant to his Ombudsman. He created monitoring centers involved in the search for pedophiles, and projects to protect children from information. The most famous “achievement” of his father was the project to “protect” Russian orphans from American adoptive parents. It was Astakhov Sr., despite the American education of his son, who became one of the lobbyists of the “anti-Sirot law”.
Pavel Astakhov himself is not alien to American education. Having graduated from the Higher School of the KGB and having worked in Russia, he went to the ocean to improve his legal qualifications. He studied at the school of rights in Pittsburgh . “I will never forget that the law faculty of Pittsburgh University has become my second alma mater,” Astakhov Sr. admitted.
Children of the political and business elite of Russia at Western universities
The oligarchs choose Yale
Northeastern University is also an eastern coast, the university is located in Boston, the capital of Massachusetts in New England. This, of course, is not as prestigious as the universities of the Poyshch League, and in the ranking of one hundred leading universities in the United States it occupies only the 40th line (cost-2.1 million rubles), but it is much easier to act, and the university is clearly applied: 90% of its students work for different companies-this is part of the educational process. Arkady Abramovich, the eldest son of Roman Abramovich, was trained in it.
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Yale University - the second or third university of America in the ranking (3.1 million rubles. The average cost of annual training). It was chosen by the Gemini Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank
Peter Aven ($ 4.6 billion) -
Denis and
Daria Avena . And their father eventually even became a member of the Presidential Council on International Relations of Yale University.
Denis studied the economy and mathematics, after graduating he got a job in a prestigious New York company Lazard , which is engaged in financial consulting and asset management. Daria focuses on history and is now looking for herself in the famous Estee Lauder .
“The feeling that I was at home appeared on the first day and did not pass throughout four years. Moreover, the university city of New Hive between Boston and New York is not the most calm place in the world, ”Daria Aven says about studying in the USA.
Laura Friedman , the eldest daughter of the co-owner and chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Group, also studied in Yela , Mikhail Friedman ($ 14.4 billion), who chose the economy as a specialization, which did not prevent her from dancing in the University of Yaledancers. After open data, she now lives in New York and is engaged in marketing.
The youngest daughter of Friedman, Catherine , also in Yela, should receive a diploma this year, was trained in Bloomberg and Credit Suisse.
Stanford-it was there that Bakalavre's degree Alexander Fursenko, the son of a member of the Lake Cooperative, a long-standing associate of Putin, ex-minister of education, and now assistant to the President Andrei Fursenko
Another student of Yale was Alexander Vekselberg (born in 1988), the son of the President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg ($ 12.4 billion, Renova). Vekselberg is a US citizen, he came to Russia to do business. President Skolkovo gave the son almost Spartan: during his studies, as his father said, the young man lived in a regular hostel, and he was allocated $ 800 a month. “He doesn’t need it anymore, he went there to study there,” Viktor Vekselberg said in an interview with Vedomosti.
In the USA, Alexander took up the car business, organized it in Denver and Philadelphia. Now he is working in the Fund of Vekselberg Sr. Columbus Nova Technology Partners.
She graduated in 2005 the same university and older sister- Irina Vekselberg . After completing the MBA course, she got a job in the father's “Renova” investment specialist. On the official website of Yale, it is listed among members of the Council on International Consultations.
Our people in California
Stanford University is the heart of Silicone Valley, the 5th University in the ranking. It was there that the degree of bachelor, Alexander Fursenko , the son of a member of the Lake Cooperative, a long-standing associate of Putin, ex-minister of education, and now Assistant President Andrei Fursenko , received. Now, judging by open data, the son works as a lawyer and lives in the USA.
Here, the son of Vadim Moshkovich ($ 2.3 billion, Rusagro) Eugene is studying for bachelor. According to the network, it is trained in the American venture fund 8VC.
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The daughter of a State Duma deputy and the famous athlete Irina Rodnina , Alena Minkovskaya , studied in California. She graduated from California University in Santa Cruze (specialization-political science), became a journalist-she worked at RT, Huffington Post. Now - in the magazine Salon. She lives, according to her Twitter, in New York, but also monitors events in Moscow. In particular, without commentary gives links to publications about the scandal with deputy Leonid Slutsky -the scandal in which her mother-deputy actively opposed journalists.
Why do they choose the West
Many in the Russian elite, despite the western more tough statements and actions, would like their children to learn the Western values and skills that have a global distribution, whether it be the world of politics or business, commented on the study of NT Alexander Warro , the Executive Director of the Davis Center for the Study of Russia and Eurasia University. A student of an American, British or other Western University does not even learn the “universal rules of the game”, but the very style of thinking, which is based on the inviolability of the contract, the mutually beneficial transaction and the principle of open competition. According to Warro, they also learn that the business of their fathers is a closed system in which corruption ties and proximity to power play a key role. The descendants of the Russian elite understand that on occasion they themselves will use this system at home, but in the Western world such schemes do not work.
“Ultimately, this is an indirect, but evidence that faith in this“ special Russian world ”and its deeply specific system of relations in business and politics are not strong,” says Warro. “For their children, wealthy Russians mainly choose a western system of relations and, if you like, a vaccine in the Western mentality.”
In any way, a representative of Vnnedorg or Gosteleradio, they sought to make a career and arrange the life of their children on the other side of the iron curtain, in the world condemned in the USSR. Representatives of the Putin elite are also pursued by the same life strategy, the expert believes
The political scientist of the Higher School of Economics Nikolai Petrov recalls that, even in Soviet times, the most attractive to the children of the elite was life in Europe and generally in the West: that is why the first main management of the KGB of the USSR (intelligence) became a synecker for children of the Soviet elite. In any way, a representative of Vnnedorg or Gosteleradio, they sought to make a career and arrange the life of their children on the other side of the iron curtain, in the world condemned in the USSR. Representatives of the Putin elite are pursuing the same life strategy, Petrov believes.
But the study of children in the West creates his own risks: “It is no coincidence that Putin at some point began to demand that the children be returned from there,” the expert says. In his opinion, the idea of the “nationalization of the elite”, which started in 2012, was preparation for the period of a more acute confrontation with the West. Therefore, the presence in the West, family and relatives among representatives of the elites would complicate the implementation of such a model.
Having part of the assets in the West, the elite is more likely to be not completely loyal, which at some point can lead to a split in the highest echelons of power. Putin is trying to avoid this at all costs. “Probably, initially they considered the option of the“ submarine ”, which goes to immersion, but not for long. Today, the situation takes on a protracted character. In the foreseeable future, rather for economic considerations, this “boat” is one way or another, but you will have to come up. And begin the normalization of relations with the West, ”the expert predicts.
The second part of the investigation will be published after the end of mourning for tragically killed in Kemerovo. * Hereinafter, the state according to Forbes