The richest women in Belarus doing business for 2017. As you can see, not all wealthy women have photos on the Internet. They work, and do not sit on the Internet, like you and me.
1. Natalia Lutsenko
Citizen of Belarus Natalia Lutsenko, together with her husband, owns 90% of the Sodrugestvo Group of Companies (the largest soybean processor in the CIS). In 2012, Japanese trader Mitsui acquired a 10% stake in the company, valuing it at $2 billion. Last year, the Russian franchise of Forbes magazine once again included Natalia Lutsenko in the top 10 richest Russian women. She took 8th place in it, and her fortune is estimated at $400 million.
Her husband took 131st place in the Forbes list of the richest businessmen in Russia with a capital of $800 million. Alexander Lutsenko also has a Belarusian passport.
2. Lyudmila Antonovskaya
Antonovskaya is the owner of a 94% share in the Polimaster group (development and production of equipment for radiation monitoring), an architect by training. She headed this business in 2006 after the death of her father.
Lyudmila Antonovskaya in 2017 became one of the initiators of the creation of the Innovative Instrument Making Association, which included Polimaster and the largest private instrument-making companies in Belarus.
3. Alma Jauntsemene
In 2017, one of the six owners of a retail and restaurant holding (distributor Stima, Sosedi stores, Pizza Tempo, Vasilki and Sushi Vesla chains) was included for the first time in the top 500 richest businessmen in Lithuania. Alma Jauncemene is a citizen of Lithuania, but, according to the Daily Report, she has a residence permit in Belarus and spends quite a lot of time here. The Lithuanian magazine TOP estimated her fortune at 20 million euros.
4. Svetlana Berezovskaya
Svetlana Berezovskaya, together with her husband, owns the NP-Service food distribution company. Since the mid-2010s, their holding opened a chain of stores near the house "Domashny" and bought out the "Tsentralny" supermarket. However, at the beginning of 2018 it became known that the tax authorities had filed claims against the business owners and a case had been initiated against them. The Berezovsky family was in London at that time.
5. Svetlana Siparova
Co-owner of the Mark Formelle group of companies, which she owns equally with her husband Andrei Serikov. Previously, Siparova’s father owned the Mark Formelle company.
6. Ksenia Shuravko
Co-owner of Onliner, who received a controlling share of the Internet resource after the divorce. Lives in two countries - Belarus and Great Britain.
7. Elena Shigalova
Owner of a controlling stake in the Zhdanovichi trading house. After the death of her husband in 2014, she inherited a controlling stake (67.55%) of the shopping complex. The business is run by her children, who have been reorganizing the company in recent years.
8. Tatyana Koltsova
Co-owner of construction hypermarkets Mile. In 2017, the Astomstroy company, controlled by Tatyana Koltsova and her family, opened the largest construction hypermarket Mile in its network. On January 1, 2018, due to the reconstruction of Aquabela, Novoselkin on the Logoisky Trakt, the first construction hypermarket where the business of the Koltsov family began, ceased operation. A business owner plans to open a new Mile across the street.
9. Svetlana Pomaleyko
Co-owner of the Kashtan group of companies (production of plastic packaging). Her son Kirill is a well-known restaurateur in Gomel; he owns Burger Loft. Last year, Kirill Pomaleiko came into the limelight thanks to ordering a logo for the John Fedor burger joint from Artemy Lebedev’s studio.
10. Vera Reshetina
Director and co-founder of the IT company CactusSoft (another co-founder is husband Andrey Reshetin). In 2014, they opened an office in New York; clients include Yandex, Mail.ru, Yves Rocher, Wargaming.net, etc.
11. Irina Kangerli
Co-owner of the Green Pharmacy chain. The wholesale and retail business it created in the early 1990s includes over 100 pharmacies. The business is managed by her daughter Rugia.
12. Tatyana Krepchuk
In 2007, the owner of Emir Motors (official Toyota dealer in Belarus) Igor Krepchuk came under investigation. His wife became the head of the company, and in 2014, Emir Motors entered the top ten leading dealers in terms of sales volume.
Last year, the Daily Diary notes, was not very successful for the co-owner of a car dealer: the Toyota brand, despite significant market growth, lost several positions in the top ten best-selling new cars and took ninth place. In 2017, 820 units were sold; in 2016, this figure was 1,261 cars.
13. Maria Prokopovich
Owner of a minority share in the Zhdanovichi trading house (32.45%). The asset went to Maria Prokopovich after the death of one of the co-founders of this business, Mikhail Prokopovich. The businessman passed away at the end of 2016.
14. Elena Skripel
Co-owner of the Helen & Valery chain (duty free shops).
15. Tatiana Sanchuk
She owns the Toloka publishing house, founded in 1990. Distributed in the CIS, Baltic countries, Germany, USA, etc. The total annual circulation is more than 72 million copies.
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Vladimir Matikevich
Over 7.5 billion rubles (about 3.8 million dollars) entered the treasury of the Republic of Belarus as a result of declaring the total annual income for the past year. This is almost a billion more than the previous one! Such data were presented by Deputy Minister of Taxes and Duties, Mr. Alexander Doroshenko, at a press conference at the National Press Center. Almost 160 thousand citizens reported their income to the state, of which more than 70 thousand were individual entrepreneurs.
The declaration of dollar millionaires did not reveal. Only 3,698 applicants received income taxed at the maximum rate of 30%. The average percentage of withdrawal to taxable income, as reported at a press conference by the head of the department of individuals of the Ministry of Taxes and Taxes, Mrs. Galina Radyukevich, is 13.7%. At the same time, he complained; our earnings are not so great...
However, according to unofficial data from the same ministry, today there are more than one hundred dollar millionaires living in the Republic of Belarus, whose total capital is more than 14 billion dollars, or 3.5 of the Budget of Belarus.
Such amounts were earned on the transit of gas, oil, “correct” customs clearance of goods and the sale of confiscated goods, construction, in the alcohol and tobacco business, the sale of weapons, the food market, the flower market, the sale of timber, fertilizers, land and the “protection protection” of the entire criminal business - “excuse ", hitting competitors, tearing up contracts and 10% of the implementation of these contracts, obtaining licenses or depriving them, conducting scheduled and unscheduled inspections, etc., etc. Among the underground millionaires, the lion's share is made up of officials and those who, according to their official duties, must stop such squandering of the people's property. However, the official salary in this category does not exceed $500 per month. Naturally, no taxes were levied on these funds earned through back-breaking labor.
So, who are they, the richest people in Belarus?
1. Alexander Lukashenko - President of Belarus - $11.4 billion.
2. Vladimir Peftiev – businessman – $900 million.
3. Ivan Titenkov – former Presidential Administration Manager – $420 million.
4. Viktor Sheiman – Prosecutor General – $397 million.
5. Mikhail Myasnikovich - President of the Academy of Sciences - $290 million.
6. Viktor Lagvinets – businessman – $175 million.
7. Filaret – Patriarchal Exarch of Belarus – 47.3 million dollars.
8. Yuri Chizh – businessman – $46.0 million.
9. Mikhail Borovoy - Minister of Transport and Communications - $26.3 million.
10. Alexey Vaganov - deputy - businessman - 23.6 million dollars.
11. Vladimir Alexandrovich general director. “Itera – Bel” - $21.9 million.
12. Galina Zhuravkova – former Presidential Administration Manager – $21.6 million.
13. Georgy Kashkan – former employee of the Administrative Department – $19.4 million.
14. Pyotr Prokopovich - head of the National Bank - $18.8 million.
15. Sergei Sidorsky - Prime Minister - $16.7 million.
16. Tamara Vinnikova – ex-head of the National Bank – $15.8 million.
17. Vladimir Konoplev - Deputy Speaker of Parliament - $14.3 million.
18. Alexander Shpilevsky - head of the State Customs Committee - $12.4 million.
19. Peter Rooster – director. Beltransgaz 10.6 million dollars.
20. Alexander Lyakhov – director. "Belarusneft" 10.2 million dollars.
21. Leonid Kozik – Chairman of Trade Unions – $9.9 million.
22. Sergey Kostyuchenko - Priorbank - $9.3 million.
23. Yuri Matusevich - “White Rus'” - 8.3 million dollars.
24. Nikolai Domashkevich – governor of the Minsk region. – 8.1 million dollars
25. Vladimir Andreichenko – governor of the Vitebsk region. – 7.9 million dollars
26. Anatoly Tozik – director. State control – 7.5 million dollars.
27. Vladimir Savchenko – governor of the Grodno region. – 7.3 million dollars
28. Sergey Litvin – businessman – $7.3 million.
29. Vasily Dolgolev – former. Goober. Brest region – 7.2 million dollars.
30. Leonid Erin - Chairman of the KGB - 6.9 million dollars.
31. Yuri Sivakov - Minister of Sports - $6.7 million.
32. Roman Vnuchko - former banker and deputy prime minister - $6.7 million.
33. Leonid Getsenok – “Khimvolokno” - 6.3 million dollars.
34. Konstantin Gisyak – “Khimvolokno” - 6.3 million dollars.
35. Nikolai Korbut – Minister of Finance – $5.3 million.
36. Valery Langov – “Nitrogen” - 6.2 million dollars.
37. Viktor Kamenkov – pres. higher economics ships – 6.2 million dollars.
38. Valentin Gurinovich - director of MAZ - 6.2 million dollars.
39. Leonid Glukhovsky – prev. Investigation Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - 6.1 million dollars.
40. Leonid Kalugin - President of Atlant CJSC - $6.1 million.
41. Victor Moroz – gene. Director of Belshin - $6.1 million.
42. Vladimir Semashko – Deputy Prime Minister – 6.1 million dollars.
43. Mikhail Pavlov – mayor of Minsk – 6.1 million dollars.
44. Viktor Rakhmanko – former. hands Bel. zhel. roads – 6.0 million dollars.
45. Leonid Kucheryavy – gene. director of "Crystal" - 6.0 million dollars.
46. Vladimir Grigoriev – Ambassador of Belarus to Russia – $5.9 million.
47. Vladimir Goncharenko – Minister of Communications – $5.6 million.
48. Nikolay Skutov – deputy - businessman – 5.5 million dollars.
49. Pavel Yakubovich – ch. editor of “Sovetskaya Belarus” - $4.7 million.
50. Ivan Bambiza - Deputy Prime Minister - $4.6 million.
51. Vladimir Boyko – former. prev Higher Economics Vessels - 4.6 million dollars.
52. Andrey Klimov – businessman – 4.5 million dollars.
53. Nikolai Korotkevich – deputy. Secretary of the Security Council - $3.8 million.
54. Stepan Sukharenko - trans. deputy Chairman of the KGB - 3.7 million dollars.
55. Egor Rybakov – former. hands national state television and radiocomp. - 3.6 million dollars
56. Sergei Gaidukevich – chairman of the LDPB – $3.4 million. [...]
Lukashenko's oligarchs or how do the richest people in Belarus earn money?
Stepan Sukhovenko
Top 13 Belarusian oligarchy
And who in Belarus today makes up the small “class” of the richest people? All friends and associates of President Lukashenko. After all, as has already been said, only the presidential will and the corresponding decree open the way to real wealth. Among the national oligarchs it is impossible to find representatives of the corps of directors (although the “anti-corruption” machine fights precisely against them) and representatives of the political opposition (although government media regularly tell “horror stories” about foreign multimillion-dollar grant funding for the opposition). Let us allow ourselves to make a rating of real Belarusian oligarchs.
Galina Anisimovna Zhuravkova, ex-head of the Presidential Administration. Now I have just left the KGB pre-trial detention center, where I was housed on charges of large-scale abuses, fraud, and bribes. Zhuravkova came to “big power” in 2001 and in a matter of months managed to redistribute many profitable markets in her favor. Thus, her “guys” took control of the wholesale markets of grain, coal, timber, and fish. Zhuravkova had a network of its own stores, selling, among other things, confiscated goods. She quickly claimed her oil quota. And later it turned out that Galina Anisimovna legally owns 0.9% of the shares of the transit enterprise Beltransgaz. And that was just the beginning. She almost managed to persuade Lukashenko to “nomenklatura privatization” of oil refining enterprises in order to subsequently resell these enterprises to Russians at a significantly higher price. But this active person did not at all take into account the needs of other “oligarch favorites” from the president’s entourage. Which is why she got burned, despite the trusting relationship with Lukashenko himself and his women.
Victor Vladimirovich Sheiman, Prosecutor General of Belarus. The president's oldest ally. His confidant. He received his legal education in absentia, already being the country's chief prosecutor. But intelligence and erudition have never been Sheiman’s virtues. But the ability to take control of a specific business and turn it into a well-functioning “gray scheme” cannot be taken away from Viktor Vladimirovich. His interests are extremely multifaceted. Through Beltechexport, Sheiman controlled the entire Belarusian (legal and not so legal) arms trade. Has an interest in the profits of the mobile operator MCS. Actively operates in the markets for energy offsets, supplies of scrap to a metallurgical plant, and supplies of food products to the capital. He is actively developing, through his brother and himself personally, a cross-border network of trade in confiscated goods.
Ivan Ivanovich Titenkov, ex-head of the Presidential Administration. Nowadays he lives in the Russian capital and is extremely dissatisfied with the behavior of his former partner Lukashenko. Why would Titenkov be dissatisfied? Before the era of Lukashenko, Ivan Ivanovich himself was a failed mediocre businessman. And only with the help of Alexander Grigorievich he reached unimaginable heights. It has taken over many consumer markets, the tourism sector, trade in tobacco and alcohol products, and the capital's real estate and office space market. Through his department, there was distribution of space for stores in the capital, as well as quotas for the supply of certain categories of goods. Again, in the end, he went too far and was forced to shamefully flee to Moscow.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Konoplev, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. A modest and quiet rural local police officer, who was not even trusted with a pistol, suddenly gained access to serious resources. It quickly took one of the main places in the market of building materials and medicines. And also in the market for the construction of prestigious facilities in Minsk. Taking advantage of the opportunity to travel abroad as part of parliamentary delegations, he established contacts with adventurous European businessmen (especially from Belgium). Sometimes, however, he delved into the pharmaceutical market. But he quickly realized that the current Minister of Health Lyudmila Postoyalko is much closer to the president than Konoplev himself. Therefore, he transferred part of his “pharmaceutical” ambitions to the provincial minister.
Victor Logvinets, owner of the trade and financial holding Konto-group. Confidant of Ivan Titenkov. Logvinets’ holding was involved in the development of dozens of profitable areas: the supply of construction materials, automotive equipment, food products, etc. For a long time he provided for the president’s considerable personal needs in clothing and food. He escaped from Belarus along with Ivan Titenkov when the latter fell into disgrace.
Vladimir Pavlovich Peftiev, the constant curator of Beltechexport, the main operator of all trade and arms transactions in Belarus, Sheiman’s closest partner. Peftiev made money from selling weapons even when Lukashenko unsuccessfully managed the Gorodets state farm. Alexander Grigorievich, immediately after winning the presidential elections in 1994, wanted to exchange Peftiev for his own man, but quickly realized that Sergei Petrovich’s companions could shoot him for such a thing. After which the “new friends” sat down at the negotiating table and worked out a profit sharing scheme.
Yuri Chizh, owner of the multi-profile holding company Triple. He regularly plays hockey with the president. At the request of the latter, he actively finances the Belarusian national football team and the Dynamo football club. Regularly fights for oil and gas quotas. Works in the food market. He constantly replenishes the “president’s common fund”, as well as his real estate and deposits.
Vladimir Alexandrovich, ex-deputy of the National Assembly, “owner” of the once high-profile company “Itera-Bel”. For a long time it was a kind of monopolist in the “gas speculation” market. Until a conflict broke out with the president of the Russian Itera, Igor Viktorovich Makarov. But Aleksandrovich quickly regained his position, and is now actively attacking not only the gas market, but also the oil and confiscated markets. He is one of the president's closest friends.
Mikhail Vladimirovich Myasnikovich, ex-chief of administration of President Lukashenko. Today he heads the National Academy of Sciences. He always had a specific material interest in banking, trading and transit and raw materials (oil) businesses. For a long time he acted as an intermediary for a number of Russian shadow industrial and financial groups, representing their interests in Belarus. That’s why Lukashenko was never “eaten.” Although he posed a considerable threat to Alexander Grigorievich, since he oversaw the nomenklatura, had significant money and had access to Russia. But Mikhail Vladimirovich is an extremely subtle opportunist, and therefore he managed to come to an agreement with Lukashenko.
Irina Abelskaya, former personal physician to the president. Today her status has increased significantly. She is no longer just a personal doctor, but also the closest, let’s say, friend of Alexander Grigorievich. Officially, he is the head of a special clinic for serving senior government officials. In reality, he has much greater influence on Belarusian politics. According to some information, it is through Abelskaya that the purchase of real estate abroad is carried out for the future quiet life of Lukashenko in retirement. Abelskaya is also active in the markets for paid medical services (especially, she is interested in such a profitable industry as cosmetology) and pharmaceuticals.
Alexey Vaganov, current deputy of the National Assembly, owner of a group of trading companies. He actively worked in the Iraqi direction “oil in exchange for...” A typical example of a Belarusian secretive businessman who received the opportunity to work in the domestic market in exchange for a mandatory deduction of a “percentage of transactions.” This percentage goes to the president's special fund. The president himself is indifferent to such people, Vaganov, but demands regular payments for the right to work.
Alexander Shpilevsky, Head of the State Customs Committee. He sharply increased the “profitability” of the State Customs Committee, literally flooded the republic with confiscated goods, and quarreled Belarus with all the countries that transited through Belarusian territory. Personally or through intermediaries, he participates in all “gray” cross-border transactions. He turned the State Customs Committee into a “confiscation machine” that regularly replenishes the personal safe and the president’s safe with income from stolen goods. Fulfills special orders of high-ranking officials to provide their wives and children with confiscated expensive (priced at least 75 thousand dollars) vehicles. In terms of the number of respectable foreign cars, Minsk will give Moscow a head start. But the owners are all around the dad.
And finally, the most important oligarch of Belarus - Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko. This man periodically makes statements that he lives only on his salary and is the most honest and pure (morally) president in the world. At the same time, he also manages to transfer most of his salary to orphanages. If you want to believe it, believe it. But in fact, he receives interest from all - legal and criminal - transactions. Resale of Russian gas within Belarus, re-export of products from oil refineries, sales of food products, tobacco products without paying taxes, trade in confiscated goods, any cargo transit, arms deals around the world, sales of stakes in state-owned enterprises - only Lukashenko can give permission for all this. He doesn’t hide the fact that he built a system in which decisions are made by one person. This means that in order to bring a carload of alcohol to Belarus and sell it without paying taxes, you need the signature of the president. And you have to pay for the signature. This is the law of nature. Why should we doubt this and why should we believe in the crystal honesty of a man named Lukashenko? As a rule, Lukashenko prefers to keep his money in cash in a home safe. Some of the money is in the safes of foreign banks. Something else is hidden in Cuba, where his children, “friend” Abelskaya and “comrade-in-arms” Sheiman periodically fly for private visits. There is no doubt, only one thing - it is Lukashenko who owns the largest Belarusian fortune.
It is not difficult to answer the question in the title. In Belarus, you can make good money only by being close to President Lukashenko. If you play hockey with him or go skiing together, then after a while you will definitely receive your piece of “state property” into “perpetual possession.” Earn money yourself, regularly pay what is due to the boss, and most importantly, keep quiet...
Belarus has its own oligarchs. Naturally, the government press does not write about them. They are not included in the Forbes "billionaire" rankings. They cannot make statements and buy English football clubs.
But they are very influential and have very decent fortunes. Influential Belarusians have a lot of free money. True, unlike their Russian colleagues, who invest all their available funds in production assets, buy raw materials deposits, and build financial and production holdings, Belarusian oligarchs keep all their fortunes in “cache” or in other people’s “sleeping” accounts. This is "dead" money. Only entertainment, underground holidays abroad and haute couture clothes for wives/daughters. Ambition and intelligence are clearly lacking.
In Belarus, unlike Russia, real “oligarchic capitalism” has been built. A small group of people has, on the one hand, full political and economic power, and on the other hand, it controls all financial flows and production and transit capacities of the republic. The redistribution of influence and resources within Belarus occurred quickly and fell within just one “five-year plan”. Having proposed the concept of “strong presidential power,” Lukashenko immediately got the opportunity, through direct presidential decrees, to provide his “partners” with tidbits of state property, transit highways, consumer markets, and construction projects. Behind the scenes, of course. And the whole point is in the development strategy of the national oligarchy. For example, in Russia, local oligarchs not only actively built their “raw materials empires,” but also tried to influence public opinion by abundantly and aggressively buying up electronic and print media. In Belarus, all media eventually ended up in the same hands - the government took strict control of public opinion. To build “oligarchic communities,” monopolization of the media is vital, and therefore Lukashenko’s fight against independent newspapers was part of a far-sighted strategy. After all, what happened in Russia? There, the so-called “information wars” began in large numbers, when the newspapers of one oligarch depict in every detail the secret affairs and luxurious lifestyle of oligarch No. 2. These wars greatly electrified public opinion, which also knew by heart the names of 30-50 oligarchs allegedly responsible for the impoverishment of the bulk of the Russian population. In Belarus, the “new oligarchs” did not say a word about each other publicly. As a rule, they transferred the showdown to Lukashenko’s office or home residence. And only in these two sacred places was there a real calculation of who earned and how much, and it also became clear how much the president himself was deceived. [...]
Classic Belarusian “spiders”
In Belarus, the oligarchy developed along a more traditional path. In this country, there was also a redistribution of property and a behind-the-scenes distribution of attractive production assets among “our own people.” But all this was done not just secretly, but absolutely silently. In complete darkness and with the deathly silence of the media. The Belarusian oligarchs did not need to corrupt the state apparatus - they were the basis, the foundation of this apparatus. Oligarchs in Belarus are officials. Could this not be considered the pinnacle of the development of the national oligarchy? One hand signs the permit, the other counts the profits. Local oligarchs, we must give them their due, quickly developed four mandatory “rules of behavior” that guarantee complete security for the “court business.” Failure to comply with these rules leads to expulsion from the “untouchable caste.” Something similar has already happened to a friend and the first “president’s wallet” Ivan Titenkov. And now the procedure for “expelling the traitor” has been launched in relation to the second “president’s wallet” Galina Zhuravka. Well, sometimes the untouchables get too carried away. And their public purge adds points in Lukashenko’s never-ending fight against corruption (usually self-inflicted).
So, the Belarusian oligarchs have developed the following security measures.
The first rule of the oligarchy: the boss (Lukashenko) is always right. You can't be offended by him. And he should regularly receive his share from any, even the most insignificant, transaction.
Rule two: you need to live in the shadows. No public revelations or verbal altercations. No leaking of incriminating evidence to newspapers. Although this happens sometimes. But the bloodiest fights between oligarchs take place on the sidelines. Analytical notes and denunciations against each other, followed by a summons to the president's dark cherry carpet - the daily real life of the new elite. Zhuravkova too brazenly crushed other people’s “property” - the republican markets of tobacco, alcohol, sugar, fish, coal - and therefore was mercilessly eaten up by other oligarchs.
Third rule: society must naively believe that all large production and transit facilities in the country remain in state (people's) ownership. For this it was necessary to recreate a gigantic propaganda apparatus. Do you no longer believe that the Belarusian Metallurgical Plant belongs to the people? Then we come to you with our agitators, political informants, ideologists, television commentators and a personal message from the president on this issue.
Rule four: there should be no alternative political or financial-production groups in the country. Belarusian oligarchs are especially afraid of the arrival of their Russian oligarch colleagues in Belarus. After all, the Russians are much more professional and aggressive, and therefore will probably push the Belarusian “little brothers” into the margins in a matter of months. This is the true reason for Lukashenko’s hysterical conflict with the Russian concerns Baltika, LUKoil, Gazprom and others. Dwarf oligarchs are afraid of oligarchs with Russian passports.
And one more thing about the difference between the two types of oligarchy. Russian oligarchs invest their money in production, increase their turnover, build a strategic business, and think about increasing the capitalization of their business. They started out as criminals, but are trying to become respectable and legalized on world business markets. Belarusian oligarchs keep money in home safes and do not want to use it in real work. The typical behavior of “spiders” is to drink other people’s juices, to extract the last profits from rapidly becoming obsolete Belarusian industries. While they are still producing something that can be sold. Our oligarchs make money from special presidential decrees, but this is not a business. This is classic corruption. And this money is not for modernizing production, but for satisfying personal needs - trips to Slovenian ski resorts, purchasing property in Spain, owning a personal “night club” in Minsk. Belarusian oligarchs are completely mediocre, and therefore are only able to receive money through criminal schemes. Unlike Russians, they do not want to legalize their income and do not want to be recognized. [...]
But all of the above people have something to lose. Only in this system, when everything is done in the shadows, opaquely and on the personal orders of the president, can they make fabulous profits. And they are not afraid that public opinion will find out about anything. Their habitat is a muddy pond. That's why they hold on to power so stubbornly. After all, the arrival of a new president or the strengthening of the parliament’s position will inevitably lead to an investigation into their financial crimes.
Fresh top 200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus. In 2018, the owner of Santa Bremor and Savushkina Product, Alexander Moshensky, took first place. He displaced the founder and main owner of Wargaming, Viktor Kisly, from the top, who had led the ranking for the last two years.
On June 28, 2013, Alexander Lukashenko presented Alexander Moshensky with the Order of the Fatherland, III degree / Photo from the presidential press service
Previously, 47-year-old Alexander Moshensky topped the top 25 most outstanding businessmen of modern Belarus (1992-2017), compiled based on the results of a survey of business representatives, heads of b2b companies, public business associations and business media. In 2017, the businessman became one of 26 representatives of business and public structures included in the updated Council for Entrepreneurship Development.
According to calculations by the Russian publication RBC, Savushkin Product ranks third in the post-Soviet space in processing raw milk. With an annual processing volume of 600 thousand tons, the Brest company is second only to Danone (1.6 million tons in 2015) and PepsiCo (1.5 million tons). According to RBC magazine, the Russian subsidiary of Savushkin Product took first place among the 15 fastest growing foreign companies on the Russian market. For the period 2014-2016, the average annual increase in revenue of Savushkin Product-Moscow was 52%; in 2016, the company’s turnover approached $140 million.
In third place is the large retailer and manufacturer of tobacco products Pavel Topuzidis.
The aforementioned Wargaming founder Viktor Kisly takes fourth place. The drop in purchasing power in Wargaming's key market in the CIS due to economic problems led to a sharp reduction in revenue and profit. In 2015, while the business was still growing, Viktor Kisly diverted serious resources to buy out a 17% stake from his former partner Ivan Mikhnevich. Ivan Mikhnevich, who invests in personal projects and is engaged in political activities in Cyprus, took seventh place in the ranking in 2018.
Another representative of the IT sector, Viktor Prokopenya, is in 12th position in the new ranking.
Oil trader Alexey Oleksin took 6th place. The founder and owner of the A-100 group of companies, Alexander Tsenter, is on the 8th line. The owners of the Euroopt chain, Sergey Litvin and Vladimir Vasilko, occupy 9th and 10th places, respectively.
The full version of the top 200 of 2018 can be viewed.
Two good news for those who like to look at the rich and popular. Recently ej.by published list of the 200 most successful and influential businessmen in Belarus. And “Nasha Niva” yesterday amounted to list of the 10 most popular Belarusian accounts on Instagram. So you look at the 10 most popular and most successful Belarusians.
10 most successful Belarusian businessmen
The Internet portal “Daily” has published a list of the 200 most successful and influential businessmen in Belarus. Success is the actual share of a particular person in the value of his business. Influence is an assessment of the level of communication of a business owner with government regulators, as well as his role (influence) in the industry and the economy as a whole.
10 most popular Belarusian Instagram accounts
Dasha Mart (1.1 million subscribers)
Dasha Mart - photographer and wife of a hockey player from the Minsk club "Yunost" Alexandra Boroduli. In addition, she has the most popular Instagram account in Belarus. On her page, Dasha often posts erotic photos, which usually receive several thousand likes.
Oksana Neveselaya (664 thousand subscribers)
Oksana became popular on Instagram by accident. If you remember, she was mistaken for a sexy teacher from Minsk in major foreign media like the Daily Mail. The news turned out to be fake - Oksana only recently graduated from school, but she received thousands of loyal fans.
Katerina Koba (441 thousand subscribers)
Katerina is a Belarusian fashion model and TV presenter of the STV channel. Abroad, Katya is called the Belarusian Barbie. Usually the girl posts pictures from work and travel.
Yulia Godunova (439 thousand subscribers)
Julia is the girlfriend of Dima Ermuzevich, who was described above. She also has her own YouTube channel, where she posts videos about her life and purchases.
Max Korzh (348 thousand subscribers)
Max is a famous Belarusian performer whose songs and videos have been very popular in recent years.
Alesya Astashevich (271 thousand subscribers)
Alesya is a model, works in Belarus and Russia and is on the list of “Barbie Models”. The girl became famous thanks to her photograph with the President on the cover of a school primer.
200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus is a project of the Internet portal “Daily”, which the publication has been preparing and publishing since 2007.
The project, first of all, has an educational goal. On the one hand, it promotes personal recognition and increases the population’s loyalty to private business in general; on the other hand, it serves as a source of information for potential partners and investors who are going to implement projects in Belarus.
Getting into and being included in the top 200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus is determined by two criteria:
1. Success is the actual share of a particular person in the price of the business that belongs to him.
Ownership and share are calculated based on data from the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus (Unified Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs), registration authorities of other countries where the main business is located or the entrepreneur conducts business, as well as on the basis of other open sources and insider information. The value of a business, in the presence of financial indicators, is calculated using traditional methods for assessing value (cost, income, comparable sales). Depending on the volume of financial information and its sources, it is chosen which approach is appropriate in assessing a specific business and, accordingly, the current capital of the person involved in the top 200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus.
2. Influentiality is an additional criterion, given by us due to the specific conditions of doing business in Belarus and the impossibility at the moment to publish monetary indicators.
It is based on the concept of business sustainability in the economic conditions that have developed over 25 years in the Belarusian economy. First of all, this is an assessment of the level of communication of a particular business owner with the state regulator, as well as his role (influence) in the region and the economy as a whole. A group of experts (at least 10 people), which is directly related to one of the markets whose participants are represented in the top 200 (IT, finance, woodworking, mechanical engineering, food industry, etc.), uses a point system to determine the degree of influence of that or another person for a given period of time.
The Top 200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus are used as a source of information on private business in Belarus not only by Belarusian companies and government agencies, but also by the European Commission, the EAEU and departments of other countries of the world.
Several features of the 2016 rating are the sharp decline of the previous leader, Yuri Chizh. From first place he jumped to 12th. And his arrested comrade Vladimir Yaprintsev was completely ignored by experts. Meanwhile, the rating was topped by the founder of World of Tanks, Viktor Kisly.
1. Victor Kisly
39 years (1976)
Nicosia (Cyprus)
General Director of Wargaming Group Ltd., Deputy Director for Development of Game Stream JLLC
2. Vitaly Arbuzov
51 years old (1964)
Minsk
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fenox Global Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fenox Venture Capital
Interests: auto components, auto production, venture capital investments, retail
3. Alexander Moshensky
45 years (1970)
Brest
General Director of JV LLC "Santa Impex Brest", member of the supervisory board of OJSC "Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus"
Interests: food, retail, leisure and entertainment, real estate
4. Pavel Topouzidis
59 years (1956)
Minsk
Chairman of the Board of Tabak-Invest LLC
5. Alexander Shakutin
56 years (1959)
Minsk
Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Amkodor - Holding Management Company, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CJSC Absolutbank
Interests: mechanical engineering, fuel and energy complex, investments, finance
6. Evgeniy Baskin
50 years (1965)
Mogilev
General Director of SJSC Servolux
Interests: food, agriculture, retail
7. Sergey Litvin
49 years (1966)
Monaco (Monaco)
8. Vladimir Vasilko
49 years (1966)
Monaco (Monaco)
Member of the supervisory board of Eurotorg LLC
Interests: retail, trade, alcohol, real estate, food, finance
9. Alexey Oleksin
Director of SJSC Energo Oil, member of the supervisory board of CJSC MTBank
Interests: fuel and energy complex, finance, real estate, food
10. Alexey Zhukov
48 years (1967)
Minsk
General Director of the Alutech Group of Companies
Interests: building materials
11. Vladimir Peftiev
58 years (1957)
Minsk
Ex-chairman of the general meeting of shareholders of Beltechexport CJSC, ex-co-owner of Beltech Holding Management Company CJSC
Interests: investments
12. Yuri Chizh
52 years old (1963)
Minsk
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Triple Group of Companies, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CJSC FC Dynamo-Minsk
Interests: construction and real estate, building materials, retail, food, agriculture, recreation and entertainment, pharmaceuticals
13. Viktor Petrovich
Director of Tabak-invest LLC
Interests: tobacco, retail, real estate, recreation and entertainment
14. Arkady Dobkin
55 years (1960)
Newtown (Pennsylvania, USA)
Co-owner, president and chairman of the board of directors of EPAM Systems Inc.
Interests: IT
15. Nikolay Katselapov
Nicosia (Cyprus)
Interests: IT, finance, real estate
16. Ivan Mikhnevich
Nicosia (Cyprus)
Co-owner of Wargaming Group Ltd.
Interests: IT, finance, real estate.
17. Nikolai Vorobey
Novopolotsk
Co-owner of Interservice LLC, member of the supervisory board of Absolutbank CJSC
Interests: fuel and energy complex, recreation and entertainment, woodworking, real estate, investments
18. Nikolay Martynov
59 years (1956)
Vitebsk
General Director of LLC "Management Company of the Holding "Belarusian Leather and Shoe Company "Marko", member of the Supervisory Board of OJSC "Belinvestbank"
Interests: shoes, retail, real estate
19. Valentin Bayko
45 years (1970)
Grodno
Chairman of the general meeting of participants of JLLC "Conte Spa"
Interests: textiles, real estate, retail, leisure and entertainment
20. Dmitry Bayko
Grodno
Deputy General Director of Conte Spa JLLC
Interests: Textiles, real estate, retail, leisure and entertainment
21. Valery Shumsky
55 years (1960)
Moscow, Russia)
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yukola Group of Companies
Interests: fuel and energy complex, recreation and entertainment
22. Sergey Savitsky
49 years (1966)
Minsk
General Director of LLC "International Automotive Holding "Atlant-M"
Interests: retail
23. Oleg Khusaenov
51 years old (1964)
Minsk
General Director of Zubr Capital LLC, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Atlant-M International Automobile Holding LLC