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Andrei Melnichenko: Soviet Russia
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Russian gazillionaire Andrei Melnichenko apparently paid JLo a staggering $2.5 million to sing at wife Aleksandra’s 30th birthday party. The cost included flying the singer and her entourage to London and putting them up in a swish hotel.
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Deripaska, Roman Abramovich and Andrei Melnichenko are buying stock of RAO “UES of Russia”. According to evaluation of stock market participants, they could manage around 20% of RAO shares. The companies owned by the entrepreneurs refute this information.
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In the Russian oligarch social event of the year, for example, Andrei Melnichenko, then a 33-year-old banker, married a Serbian model near Cannes in a September 2005 ceremony that cost $40 million. For the nuptials, the couple dismantled an Orthodox church in Russia and reassembled it France.
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Melnichenko is ranked 23rd among Russian billionaires with a fortune of $4.6 billion, according to Forbes. K+S extracts 8 million tons of potash and magnesium, which gets processed into fertilizer at factories currently running at full speed. The German company has already undertaken joint potash projects with Moscow-based rival EuroChem, controlled by Melnichenko.
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