The outcome of foreign companies from Russia has become a unique opportunity for enrichment - the best companies that foreigners have grown for decades can now be bought 10 times cheaper than the market price. People to whom the authorities entrusted with the purchase of assets of foreigners become a new elite of Russian business. We begin a series of investigations about them.

The departure of foreign companies from Russia not only provides new opportunities for enriching the FORBES list and friends of Vladimir Putin , but also creates a new business elite, allowing the "Middle Sovereign oligarchs" to go to the higher league. One of these people was a little-known businessman Armen Sargsyan, a relative of the former vice-mayor of Moscow, Joseph Ordzhonikidze, who in the early 2010s became the beneficiary of the state lottery business.

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