Former Mail.Ru CEO Dmitry Grishin became the luckiest Russian investor of the week. The startup Ring, in which his fund Grishin Robotics invested in 2016, was bought by Amazon — according to various estimates , for $1.1-1.8 billion. Grishin invested $10-15 million in Ring at a valuation of $200-300 million and could have earned $50-90 million on the deal. We have collected the main information about Grishin and his fund (you can read more about Ring and why Amazon needed it here ).

Last year, billionaire Oleg Deripaska "bought" Cypriot citizenship in a controversial citizenship-for-investment scheme, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian and the Center for Corruption and Organized Crime Research ( OCCRP ). Details. Journalists claim that they have received documents on which of the foreigners have applied for Cypriot citizenship in recent years - there are more than 400 names on the list, of which almost a third are Russians.