Lexisnexis first appreciated the mention of Russian billionaires in foreign media. The first place was taken by the co -owner of the company Evraz and the owner of the Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich (9684 references), writes Vedomosti. The TOP-3 with a significant lag also included billionaires Oleg Deripaska and Mikhail Friedman (4735 and 2894 publications, respectively).

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More than half of the publications about Abramovich were made by the British media, and they are mainly connected with football. Media first wrote several times that the businessman plans to sell Chelsea and possible customers of the club, and then, in November and December, that Abramovich rejected several offers for sale.
Deripaska was written mainly due to American sanctions and the possible deprivation of an investment citizenship of Cyprus.
Friedman's third place in the ranking was provided by the publications of journalists about the interrogation of a billionaire in the Spanish court in the bankruptcy case of the Spanish technological company ZED Worldwide.

Businessmen Leonid Michelson, Yuri Milner and Alisher Usmanov are closed the first ten ratings. On the 11th line, the co-owner of the Solikamsk Magnesium Plant, the former head of Silvinit OJSC, Petr Kondrashov unexpectedly found herself. The Sentis Capital Foundation belonging to it is a major shareholder of Meyer Burger - a manufacturer of equipment for "solar energy", which the Swiss media wrote a lot about.

Roman Abramovich became the most mentioned Russian billionaire in foreign media