Len Blavatnik (billionaire, OLIGARCH, Russia (Ukraine), emigrate, Harvard, Columbia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Blavatnik
>In 1986, Blavatnik founded Access Industries, an international conglomerate company located in New York, of which he is chairman and president. Access has long-term holdings in Europe and North and South America. Initially, he moved into Russian investments, just after the fall of communism. He and a friend from university, Viktor Vekselberg, formed the Renova investment vehicle, and then the two joined with Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group to form the AAR venture.[7] Access has since diversified its portfolio to include investments in industries such as oil, entertainment, coal, aluminum, petrochemicals and plastics, telecommunications, media, and real estate.[citation needed]
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>Blavatnik is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Centre for International Business and Management at Cambridge University, a member of the board of Dean's Advisors at the Harvard Business School and a member of the academic board at Tel Aviv University.[22]
>AAR gained a controlling stake in Russian oil company TNK through privatization auctions, then in 2003 sold a 50% stake to British Petroleum to form TNK-BP, one of Russia's largest oil companies, where Blavatnik served on the board of directors. On March 21, 2013, Rosneft completed its $55 billion acquisition of TNK-BP. Blavatnik also has interests in UC Rusal, the world's largest aluminum producer, where he sits on the board. On May 6, 2011, Warner Music Group announced its sale to Access for US$3.3 billion.[11]
Political donations[edit]
In 2011, Blavatnik donated both President Barack Obama and his GOP rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.[29]
Blavatnik is a supporter of the US Republican Party, and in 2015-2016 donated a total of $7.35 million to six Republican political candidates, including South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Arizona Senator John McCain.[30] In February 2016, Blavatnik donated over $1 million to an anti-Donald Trump GOP group.[31] He also donated $1 million to the committee for the inauguration of Donald Trump.[30] In August 2017, political scientist Bo Rothstein resigned from the Blavatnik School of Government out of opposition to Blavatnik's politics.[32]
Blavatnik and his American wife, Emily, also donated to Democratic Party candidates Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.[33]
<In 2017, after two senior Trump administration officials went on record as being lobbyists for Blavatnik’s Access Industries[34], Blavatnik was mentioned in investigations led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian donations to the administration.[35] Since April 2016 Blavatnik contributed $383,000 to the Republican National Committee and $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. However he did not give directly to the Trump campaign.[36]
Personal life[edit]
Blavatnik is married to Emily Appelson Blavatnik.[38] The couple have four children.
He owns a grade II listed building in Kensington Palace Gardens which is valued at £200 million.[39]
Blavatnik is friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[40]
Blavatnik is also a longtime friend and business partner of Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg,[7] one of Russia's richest men, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.[30]
Blavatnik & Edgar Bronfman Jr & Lord John Browne & Huawei & Mikhail Fridman & Alfa Bank the Icelandic Financial Crisis & Shapburg Limited & Time & Warner Music & LyondellBasell & Meredith Corporation & Accretive LLC & Access Industries & f*ck all this is too big for me! HELP!!!!!!
I will be tagging to this post from a few devices (hence a few different ID's.mmmkay?)