with his USM Holdings company. Usmanov owns a lavish property portfolio in the UK, is a shareholder in iron ore and steel group Metalloinvest, and also operates in the media and internet sectors.The director general and vice-chair of the board of directors at Surgutneftegas, an oil company operating in Russia. He has been subject to UK sanctions since 2018.
The chief executive of Russian state-owned diamond mining company Alrosa and a board member of Gazprombank, he is the son of Sergei Borisovich Ivanov, reportedly one of Putin’s closest allies and former chief of staff of the presidential executive office.A trained economist, the billionaire oligarch also represents the Republic of Dagestan in Russia’s federation council, or senate. He is believed to have a large stake in Russia’s biggest gold producer, Polyus.
serves as first deputy chief of staff of the presidential office and is said to be Putin’s “domestic policy curator”.served in leadership roles at Gazprom Neft, a subsidiary of the state oil firm, and is employed in Russia’s energy sector. He is the son of Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the security council of Russia, who came under US sanctions in February.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, right, shows Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside Saint Petersburg in 2010.Nicknamed “Putin’s chef” because of the restaurant business in which he made his fortune, Prigozhin’s interests now include a notorious internet “troll factory” in St Petersburg, known as the Internet Research Agency.The father of Igor Rotenberg and brother of Boris, he has known Putin since childhood.