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Vladimir Potanin
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Vladimir Potanin was the first to introduce the idea of the loans-for-shares auctions, which put state assets in private hands. In the course of auctions UNEXIM Bank and MFK acquired state-owned stakes of Sidanko oil company, Norilsk Nickel, Novolipetsk metallurgical industrial complex and several other enterprises. In April 1996, by a governmental decree, Potanin was appointed a member of Norilsk Nickel board of directors.
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President of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Arkady Volsky ... said in an Echo of Moscow interview that the information of the arrest of Vladimir Potanin was not true, “This is false information. He is far away, abroad”. There is information that Vladimir Potanin is staying in Israel and is not going to return to Russia. However, Interros Holding reported that Mr. Potanin is in Moscow.
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Russian tycoon Vladimir Potanin, the head of Interros Company, was born 3 January 1961 in Moscow, to a family of a diplomat. At the age of 22 Potanin graduated from MGIMO (the Moscow State Institute of International Relations), known as a prestigious institute making specialists for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After graduation Vladimir worked for the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, until the state monopoly on foreign commerce was abolished in 1990. Taking advantage of the new regulations Vladimir Potanin founded Interros, a foreign trade association.
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Vladimir Potanin's bank, then called Uneximbank, was another of the defaulters. Potanin replaced it with the freshly painted Rosbank sign, and as the head of Interros and controlling shareholder of Norilsk Nickel, he is much wealthier today than he was before the 1998 collapse. He hasn't been charged with any crime, and if the newspapers he controls, including the Moscow Times, are to be believed, he is as blameless as the driven snow.
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Vladimir Potanin, 42, was born in 1961 into a high-ranking Communist family. He attended the Moscow Institute for International Relations, an elite school that groomed students for the KGB and offices of the Kremlin. He then went to work for the Soviet Department of Trade, where his father had ... worked. In 1991, he created Interros, a foreign trade association that traded nonferrous metals, including aluminum, copper and lead. With the capital he accumulated from Interros, he started two banks, the Oneximbank and the MFK, to which many state enterprises transferred their accounts. Later, Potanin became one of the principal authors of the Loans for Shares program, in which the Russian government traded ownership in state industries for loans.
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Vladimir Potanin was born in 1961 into a high-ranking family. He attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), an elite school that groomed students for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Upon graduation of MGIMO, he followed in his father's footsteps and went to work for the Soviet Department of Trade.
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