Some are precious allies of Vladimir Putin, while a majority of them simply do not prefer to offend him for fear of reprisals. But at the time of the war, some Russian oligarchs do not necessarily taste the actions of the head of the Kremlin and let it be known. First, economically. Russia’s wealthiest have lost more than 110 billion euros since the start of the war in Ukraine, according to Forbesdue to the destabilization of the markets and the first Western sanctions against their assets.
Oleg Deripaska thus demanded on Monday the end of “state capitalism” in Russia. “It’s a real crisis there, and we need real crisis managers (…) it is absolutely necessary to change economic policy”, wrote on Telegram the billionaire and founder of the aluminum giant Rusal. Unlike in 2014 when first sanctions were passed following Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, “it won’t be possible to just wait,” continued Oleg Deripaska, who is among the 50 richest people in Russia. Russia. He said he expected from the government “clarifications and clear comments on economic policy for the next three months”.
More broadly, some voices are publicly raised to denounce a simply inhuman war.
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“War can never be the answer”
This is the case of Oleg Tinkov, founder of the Tinkoff bank, who criticized the invasion of Ukraine in a message published on Monday. “Today, in Ukraine, innocent people are dying every day, it’s unthinkable and unacceptable!”, He said on Instagram, calling for “spending money to treat people, for research in order to defeat cancer, not for war”.
One of Russia’s richest men, oligarch Roman Abramovich, was “contacted by Ukraine to help find a solution and has been trying to help ever since,” his door-keeper told AFP. lyrics by Rola Brentlin.
On Sunday, Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman denounced the war in Ukraine in a letter to employees of his LetterOne fund. “I am convinced that war can never be the answer. This crisis will cost lives and ravage two sister nations for hundreds of years,” he wrote, saying he wanted this “outpouring” to end. of blood”.
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Between disinformation – the attack is presented as a special operation in defense of Donbass – and false information, it is difficult to say that all of Russia remains against the war in Ukraine. Nevertheless, the voices of these powerful oligarchs, and the petition signed by more than a million Russians against the war, as reported The crossconfirm that Vladimir Putin’s military actions are (very) far from being unanimous among his fellow citizens.
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