This article needs to be updated. In particular: the 2018 Forbes World Billionaires list was released in March 2018. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. This is single russian billionaires list of Russian billionaires based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine in 2018.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Billionaires of Russia. Pages in category “Russian billionaires” The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total. What was considered a bad social practice now is fine and even in sort of trend: Russian older men getting married or befriending young women. Plenty of pairs around where wives look more like daughters. Rich men are especially noted for such behavior. Here is a list of some most notable couples.
Valentin Ivanov and his wife Lisa have thirty-seven years age difference. They married when she turned eighteen years old, but they were dating since her being fourteen. Some Russian media gave really negative coverage of this marriage. Well, if you are a woman, you have time till you 23, or 24 to get a decent rich guy, and after 30 you are done. From 30, your only opinion will be the 10-20 years older guys, because nobody want to live with an old hag. Pro tip: No sane man with money will start any kind of relationship with a divorced woman. 9 trillion in wealth as of 2017.
That represents the greatest total growth in wealth among billionaires ever. Our map helps you visualize both the geography of where billionaires live and the size of their fortunes. The United States clearly dominates both in terms of the overall number of billionaires and the total value of their wealth. The US is home to several titans of technology, including household names like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. It’s important to remember that almost all of these luminaries hold their wealth in the stock market, usually tied directly to the company they founded. Asia-Pacific is not far behind in challenging the United States as an engine for astonishing levels of wealth.
Compare that to Japan, where according to the World Bank, the economy is about a third the size of China’s. Western Europe is also home to lots of extremely wealthy billionaires, though not as many as Asia or North America. And finally, one of the most interesting questions our map raises is why there aren’t more people in the billionaire club from the Middle East and North Africa. There’s certainly enough wealth in the oil industry to make at least several people fabulously wealthy, but perhaps part of the reason why we don’t see more people here is due to state-owned companies.
