Vladimir Matikevich

Over 7.5 billion rubles (about 3.8 million dollars) entered the treasury of the Republic of Belarus as a result of declaring the total annual income for the past year. This is almost a billion more than the previous one! Such data were presented by Deputy Minister of Taxes and Duties, Mr. Alexander Doroshenko, at a press conference at the National Press Center. Almost 160 thousand citizens reported their income to the state, of which more than 70 thousand were individual entrepreneurs.

The declaration of dollar millionaires did not reveal. Only 3,698 applicants received income taxed at the maximum rate of 30%. The average percentage of withdrawals to taxable income, as the head of the department reported at a press conference individuals MNS, Mrs. Galina Radyukevich, - 13.7%. At the same time, he complained; our earnings are not so great...

However, according to unofficial data from the same ministry, today there are more than one hundred dollar millionaires living in the Republic of Belarus, whose total capital is more than 14 billion dollars, or 3.5 of the Budget of Belarus.

Such amounts were earned on the transit of gas, oil, “correct” customs clearance of goods and the sale of confiscated goods, construction, in the alcohol and tobacco business, the sale of weapons, the food market, the flower market, the sale of timber, fertilizers, land and the “protection protection” of the entire criminal business - “excuse ", hitting competitors, tearing up contracts and 10% of the implementation of these contracts, obtaining licenses or depriving them, conducting scheduled and unscheduled inspections, etc., etc. Among the underground millionaires, the lion's share consists of officials and those who job responsibilities must stop such squandering of people's property. However, the official salary in this category does not exceed $500 per month. Naturally, from data earned through back-breaking labor Money, no taxes were charged.

So, who are they, the richest people in Belarus?

1. Alexander Lukashenko - President of Belarus - $11.4 billion.

2. Vladimir Peftiev – businessman – $900 million.

3. Ivan Titenkov – former Presidential Administration Manager – $420 million.

4. Viktor Sheiman – Prosecutor General – $397 million.

5. Mikhail Myasnikovich - President of the Academy of Sciences - $290 million.

6. Viktor Lagvinets – businessman – $175 million.

7. Filaret – Patriarchal Exarch of Belarus – 47.3 million dollars.

8. Yuri Chizh – businessman – $46.0 million.

9. Mikhail Borovoy - Minister of Transport and Communications - $26.3 million.

10. Alexey Vaganov - deputy - businessman - 23.6 million dollars.

11. Vladimir Alexandrovich general director. “Itera – Bel” - $21.9 million.

12. Galina Zhuravkova – former Presidential Administration Manager – $21.6 million.

13. Georgy Kashkan – former employee Department managers - $19.4 million.

14. Pyotr Prokopovich - head of the National Bank - $18.8 million.

15. Sergei Sidorsky - Prime Minister - $16.7 million.

16. Tamara Vinnikova – ex-head of the National Bank – $15.8 million.

17. Vladimir Konoplev - Deputy Speaker of Parliament - $14.3 million.

18. Alexander Shpilevsky - head of the State Customs Committee - $12.4 million.

19. Peter Rooster – director. Beltransgaz 10.6 million dollars.

20. Alexander Lyakhov – director. "Belarusneft" 10.2 million dollars.

21. Leonid Kozik – Chairman of Trade Unions – $9.9 million.

22. Sergey Kostyuchenko - Priorbank - $9.3 million.

23. Yuri Matusevich - “White Rus'” - 8.3 million dollars.

24. Nikolai Domashkevich – governor of the Minsk region. – 8.1 million dollars

25. Vladimir Andreichenko – governor of the Vitebsk region. – 7.9 million dollars

26. Anatoly Tozik – director. State control – 7.5 million dollars.

27. Vladimir Savchenko – governor of the Grodno region. – 7.3 million dollars

28. Sergey Litvin – businessman – $7.3 million.

29. Vasily Dolgolev – former. Goober. Brest region – 7.2 million dollars.

30. Leonid Erin - Chairman of the KGB - 6.9 million dollars.

31. Yuri Sivakov - Minister of Sports - $6.7 million.

32. Roman Vnuchko - former banker and deputy prime minister - $6.7 million.

33. Leonid Getsenok – “Khimvolokno” - 6.3 million dollars.

34. Konstantin Gisyak – “Khimvolokno” - 6.3 million dollars.

35. Nikolai Korbut – Minister of Finance – $5.3 million.

36. Valery Langov – “Nitrogen” - 6.2 million dollars.

37. Viktor Kamenkov – pres. higher economics ships – 6.2 million dollars.

38. Valentin Gurinovich - director of MAZ - 6.2 million dollars.

39. Leonid Glukhovsky – prev. Investigation Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - 6.1 million dollars.

40. Leonid Kalugin - President of Atlant CJSC - $6.1 million.

41. Victor Moroz – gene. Director of Belshin - $6.1 million.

42. Vladimir Semashko – Deputy Prime Minister – 6.1 million dollars.

43. Mikhail Pavlov – mayor of Minsk – 6.1 million dollars.

44. Viktor Rakhmanko – former. hands Bel. zhel. roads – 6.0 million dollars.

45. Leonid Kucheryavy – gene. director of "Crystal" - 6.0 million dollars.

46. ​​Vladimir Grigoriev – Ambassador of Belarus to Russia – $5.9 million.

47. Vladimir Goncharenko – Minister of Communications – $5.6 million.

48. Nikolay Skutov – deputy - businessman – 5.5 million dollars.

49. Pavel Yakubovich – ch. editor of “Sovetskaya Belarus” - $4.7 million.

50. Ivan Bambiza - Deputy Prime Minister - $4.6 million.

51. Vladimir Boyko – former. prev Higher Economics Vessels - 4.6 million dollars.

52. Andrey Klimov – businessman – 4.5 million dollars.

53. Nikolai Korotkevich – deputy. Secretary of the Security Council - $3.8 million.

54. Stepan Sukharenko - trans. deputy Chairman of the KGB - 3.7 million dollars.

55. Egor Rybakov – former. hands national state television and radiocomp. - 3.6 million dollars

56. Sergei Gaidukevich – chairman of the LDPB – $3.4 million. [...]

Lukashenko's oligarchs or how do the richest people in Belarus earn money?

Stepan Sukhovenko

Top 13 Belarusian oligarchy

And who in Belarus today makes up the small “class” of the richest people? All friends and associates of President Lukashenko. After all, as has already been said, only the presidential will and the corresponding decree open the way to real wealth. Among the national oligarchs it is impossible to find representatives of the corps of directors (although the “anti-corruption” machine fights precisely against them) and representatives of the political opposition (although government media regularly tell “horror stories” about foreign multimillion-dollar grant funding for the opposition). Let us allow ourselves to make a rating of real Belarusian oligarchs.

Galina Anisimovna Zhuravkova, ex-head of the Presidential Administration. Now I have just left the KGB pre-trial detention center, where I was housed on charges of large-scale abuses, fraud, and bribes. Zhuravkova came to “big power” in 2001 and in a matter of months managed to redistribute many profitable markets in her favor. So, her “guys” took control wholesale markets grain, coal, timber, fish. Zhuravkova had a network of its own stores, selling, among other things, confiscated goods. She quickly claimed her oil quota. And later it turned out that Galina Anisimovna legally owns 0.9% of the shares of the transit enterprise Beltransgaz. And that was just the beginning. She almost managed to persuade Lukashenko to “nomenklatura privatization” of oil refining enterprises in order to subsequently resell these enterprises to Russians at a significantly higher price. But this active person did not at all take into account the needs of other “oligarch favorites” from the president’s entourage. Which is why she got burned, despite the trusting relationship with Lukashenko himself and his women.

Victor Vladimirovich Sheiman, Prosecutor General of Belarus. The president's oldest ally. His confidant. He received his legal education in absentia, already being the country's chief prosecutor. But intelligence and erudition have never been Sheiman’s virtues. But the ability to take control of a specific business and turn it into a well-functioning “gray scheme” cannot be taken away from Viktor Vladimirovich. His interests are extremely multifaceted. Through Beltechexport, Sheiman controlled the entire Belarusian (legal and not so legal) arms trade. Has an interest in the profits of the mobile operator MCS. Actively operates in the markets for energy offsets, supplies of scrap to a metallurgical plant, and supplies of food products to the capital. He is actively developing, through his brother and himself personally, a cross-border network of trade in confiscated goods.

Ivan Ivanovich Titenkov, ex-head of the Presidential Administration. Currently lives in Russian capital and is extremely dissatisfied with the behavior of his former partner Lukashenko. Why would Titenkov be dissatisfied? Before the era of Lukashenko, Ivan Ivanovich himself was a failed mediocre businessman. And only with the help of Alexander Grigorievich he reached unimaginable heights. It has taken over many consumer markets, the tourism sector, trade in tobacco and alcohol products, and the capital's real estate and office space market. Through his department, there was distribution of space for stores in the capital, as well as quotas for the supply of certain categories of goods. Again, in the end, he went too far and was forced to shamefully flee to Moscow.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Konoplev, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. A modest and quiet rural local police officer, who was not even trusted with a pistol, suddenly gained access to serious resources. It quickly took one of the main places in the market building materials and medicines. And also in the market for the construction of prestigious facilities in Minsk. Taking advantage of the opportunity to travel abroad as part of parliamentary delegations, he established contacts with adventurous European businessmen (especially from Belgium). Sometimes, however, he delved into the pharmaceutical market. But he quickly realized that the current Minister of Health Lyudmila Postoyalko is much closer to the president than Konoplev himself. Therefore, he transferred part of his “pharmaceutical” ambitions to the provincial minister.

Victor Logvinets, owner of the trade and financial holding Konto-group. Confidant of Ivan Titenkov. Logvints' holding was developing dozens of profitable directions: supplies of construction materials, automotive equipment, food products, etc. For a long time he provided for the president’s considerable personal needs in clothing and food. He escaped from Belarus along with Ivan Titenkov when the latter fell into disgrace.

Vladimir Pavlovich Peftiev, the constant curator of Beltechexport, the main operator of all trade and arms transactions in Belarus, Sheiman’s closest partner. Peftiev made money from selling weapons even when Lukashenko unsuccessfully managed the Gorodets state farm. Alexander Grigorievich, immediately after winning the presidential elections in 1994, wanted to exchange Peftiev for his own man, but quickly realized that Sergei Petrovich’s companions could shoot him for such a thing. After which the “new friends” sat down at the negotiating table and worked out a profit sharing scheme.

Yuri Chizh, owner of the multi-profile holding company Triple. He regularly plays hockey with the president. At the request of the latter, he actively finances the Belarusian national football team and the Dynamo football club. Regularly fights for oil and gas quotas. Works in the food market. He constantly replenishes the “president’s common fund”, as well as his real estate and deposits.

Vladimir Alexandrovich, ex-deputy of the National Assembly, “owner” of the once high-profile company “Itera-Bel”. For a long time it was a kind of monopolist in the “gas speculation” market. Until a conflict broke out with the president of the Russian Itera, Igor Viktorovich Makarov. But Aleksandrovich quickly regained his position, and is now actively attacking not only the gas market, but also the oil and confiscated markets. He is one of the president's closest friends.

Mikhail Vladimirovich Myasnikovich, ex-chief of administration of President Lukashenko. Today he heads the National Academy of Sciences. He always had a specific material interest in banking, trading and transit and raw materials (oil) businesses. For a long time he acted as an intermediary for a number of Russian shadow industrial and financial groups, representing their interests in Belarus. That’s why Lukashenko was never “eaten.” Although he posed a considerable threat to Alexander Grigorievich, since he oversaw the nomenklatura, had significant money and had access to Russia. But Mikhail Vladimirovich is an extremely subtle opportunist, and therefore he managed to come to an agreement with Lukashenko.

Irina Abelskaya, former personal physician to the president. Today her status has increased significantly. She is no longer just a personal doctor, but also the closest, let’s say, friend of Alexander Grigorievich. Officially, he is the head of the special clinic for higher education officials states. In reality, he has much greater influence on Belarusian politics. According to some information, it is through Abelskaya that the purchase of real estate abroad is carried out for the future quiet life of Lukashenko in retirement. Abelskaya is also active in the markets for paid medical services (especially, she is interested in such a profitable industry as cosmetology) and pharmaceuticals.

Alexey Vaganov, current member of the National Assembly, owner of the group trading companies. He actively worked in the Iraqi direction “oil in exchange for...” A typical example of a Belarusian secretive businessman who received the opportunity to work in the domestic market in exchange for a mandatory deduction of a “percentage of transactions.” This percentage goes to the president's special fund. The president himself is indifferent to such people, Vaganov, but demands regular payments for the right to work.

Alexander Shpilevsky, Head of the State Customs Committee. He sharply increased the “profitability” of the State Customs Committee, literally flooded the republic with confiscated goods, and quarreled Belarus with all the countries that transited through Belarusian territory. Personally or through intermediaries, he participates in all “gray” cross-border transactions. He turned the State Customs Committee into a “confiscation machine” that regularly replenishes the personal safe and the president’s safe with income from stolen goods. Fulfills special orders of high-ranking officials to provide their wives and children with confiscated expensive (priced at least 75 thousand dollars) vehicles. In terms of the number of respectable foreign cars, Minsk will give Moscow a head start. But the owners are all around the dad.

And finally, the most important oligarch of Belarus - Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko. This man periodically makes statements that he lives only on his salary and is the most honest and pure (morally) president in the world. At the same time, he also manages to transfer most of his salary to orphanages. If you want to believe it, believe it. But in fact, he receives interest from all - legal and criminal - transactions. Resale of Russian gas within Belarus, re-export of oil refinery products, sales of food products, tobacco products without paying taxes, trade in confiscated goods, any cargo transit, arms deals around the world, sales of shareholdings state enterprises- only Lukashenko can give permission for all this. He doesn’t hide the fact that he built a system in which decisions are made by one person. This means that in order to bring a carload of alcohol to Belarus and sell it without paying taxes, you need the signature of the president. And you have to pay for the signature. This is the law of nature. Why should we doubt this and why should we believe in the crystal honesty of a man named Lukashenko? As a rule, Lukashenko prefers to keep his money in cash in a home safe. Some of the money is in the safes of foreign banks. Something else is hidden in Cuba, where his children, “friend” Abelskaya and “comrade-in-arms” Sheiman periodically fly for private visits. There is no doubt, only one thing - it is Lukashenko who owns the largest Belarusian fortune.

It is not difficult to answer the question in the title. In Belarus, you can make good money only by being close to President Lukashenko. If you play hockey with him or go skiing together, then after a while you will definitely receive your piece of “state property” into “perpetual possession.” Earn money yourself, regularly pay what is due to the boss, and most importantly, keep quiet...

Belarus has its own oligarchs. Naturally, the government press does not write about them. They are not included in the Forbes "billionaire" rankings. They cannot make statements and buy English football clubs.

But they are very influential and have very decent fortunes. Influential Belarusians have a lot of free money. True, unlike their Russian colleagues, who invest all their available funds in production assets, buy raw materials deposits, and build financial and production holdings, Belarusian oligarchs keep all their fortunes in “cache” or in other people’s “sleeping” accounts. This is "dead" money. Only entertainment, underground holidays abroad and haute couture clothes for wives/daughters. Ambition and intelligence are clearly lacking.

In Belarus, unlike Russia, real “oligarchic capitalism” has been built. A small group of people has, on the one hand, the fullness of political and economic power, and on the other hand, it controls all financial flows and production and transit capacities of the republic. The redistribution of influence and resources within Belarus occurred quickly and fell within just one “five-year plan”. Having proposed the concept of “strong presidential power,” Lukashenko immediately got the opportunity, through direct presidential decrees, to provide his “partners” with tidbits of state property, transit highways, consumer markets, construction projects. Behind the scenes, of course. And the whole point is in the development strategy of the national oligarchy. For example, in Russia, local oligarchs not only actively built their “raw materials empires”, but also tried to influence public opinion, abundantly and aggressively buying electronic and print media. In Belarus, all media eventually ended up in the same hands - the government took strict control of public opinion. To build “oligarchic communities,” monopolization of the media is vital, and therefore Lukashenko’s fight against independent newspapers was part of a far-sighted strategy. After all, what happened in Russia? There, the so-called “information wars” began in large numbers, when the newspapers of one oligarch depict in every detail the secret affairs and luxurious lifestyle of oligarch No. 2. These wars greatly electrified public opinion, which also knew by heart the names of 30-50 oligarchs allegedly responsible for the impoverishment of the bulk of the Russian population. In Belarus, the “new oligarchs” did not say a word about each other publicly. As a rule, they transferred the showdown to Lukashenko’s office or home residence. And only in these two sacred places was there a real calculation of who earned and how much, and it also became clear how much the president himself was deceived. [...]

Classic Belarusian “spiders”

In Belarus, the oligarchy developed over more traditional way. In this country, there was also a redistribution of property and a behind-the-scenes distribution of attractive production assets among “our own people.” But all this was done not just secretly, but absolutely silently. In complete darkness and with the deathly silence of the media. The Belarusian oligarchs did not need to corrupt the state apparatus - they were the basis, the foundation of this apparatus. Oligarchs in Belarus are officials. Could this not be considered the pinnacle of the development of the national oligarchy? One hand signs the permit, the other counts the profits. Local oligarchs, we must give them their due, quickly developed four mandatory “rules of behavior” that guarantee complete security for the “court business.” Failure to comply with these rules leads to expulsion from the “untouchable caste.” Something similar has already happened to a friend and the first “president’s wallet” Ivan Titenkov. And now the procedure for “expelling the traitor” has been launched in relation to the second “president’s wallet” Galina Zhuravka. Well, sometimes even the untouchables get too carried away. And their public purge adds points in Lukashenko’s never-ending fight against corruption (usually self-inflicted).

So, the Belarusian oligarchs have developed the following security measures.

The first rule of the oligarchy: the boss (Lukashenko) is always right. You can't be offended by him. And he should regularly receive his share from any, even the most insignificant, transaction.

Rule two: you need to live in the shadows. No public revelations or verbal altercations. No leaking of incriminating evidence to newspapers. Although this happens sometimes. But the bloodiest fights between oligarchs take place on the sidelines. Analytical notes and denunciations against each other, followed by a summons to the president's dark cherry carpet - the daily real life of the new elite. Zhuravkova too brazenly crushed other people’s “property” - the republican markets of tobacco, alcohol, sugar, fish, coal - and therefore was mercilessly eaten up by other oligarchs.

Third rule: society must naively believe that all large production and transit facilities in the country remain in state (people's) ownership. For this it was necessary to recreate a gigantic propaganda apparatus. Do you no longer believe that the Belarusian Metallurgical Plant belongs to the people? Then we come to you with our agitators, political informants, ideologists, television commentators and a personal message from the president on this issue.

Rule four: there should be no alternative political or financial-production groups in the country. Belarusian oligarchs are especially afraid of the arrival of their Russian oligarch colleagues in Belarus. After all, the Russians are much more professional and aggressive, and therefore will probably push the Belarusian “little brothers” into the margins in a matter of months. This is the true reason for Lukashenko’s hysterical conflict with the Russian concerns Baltika, LUKoil, Gazprom and others. Dwarf oligarchs are afraid of oligarchs with Russian passports.

And one more thing about the difference between the two types of oligarchy. Russian oligarchs invest their money in production, increase their turnover, build a strategic business, and think about increasing the capitalization of their business. They started out as criminals, but are trying to become respectable and legalized on world business markets. Belarusian oligarchs keep money in home safes and absolutely do not want to let it into real job. The typical behavior of “spiders” is to drink other people’s juices, to extract the last profits from rapidly becoming obsolete Belarusian industries. While they are still producing something that can be sold. Our oligarchs make money from special presidential decrees, but this is not a business. This is classic corruption. And this money is not for modernizing production, but for satisfying personal needs - trips to Slovenian ski resorts, purchasing property in Spain, owning a personal “night club” in Minsk. Belarusian oligarchs are completely mediocre, and therefore are only able to receive money through criminal schemes. Unlike Russians, they do not want to legalize their income and do not want to be recognized. [...]

But all of the above people have something to lose. Only in this system, when everything is done in the shadows, opaquely and on the personal orders of the president, can they make fabulous profits. And they are not afraid that public opinion will find out about anything. Their habitat is a muddy pond. That's why they hold on to power so stubbornly. After all, the arrival of a new president or the strengthening of the position of parliament will inevitably lead to an investigation into their financial crimes.

Forbes magazine annually compiles a list of the world's most influential personalities. These are several dozen people on whom the course of world history depends.

“Influence” is a very vague category, so experts rely on four main criteria. This is the number of people under the control of a particular person, the volume of resources at his disposal, including financial ones, the spheres of public life under his influence, as well as the activity with which the nominee uses his power.

Many states have their own charts of influence, including our neighbors Ukraine and Lithuania. Compiling influence ratings has become a tradition there. They allow you to track changes in the life of the country. They are also of interest to the participants in the rating themselves.

“Nasha Niva” tried to compile such a rating for Belarus. To do this, we invited a dozen experts from different fields and political platforms.

Our list of the most influential Belarusians reflects the country's public life at the beginning of 2013. We started compiling it in January.

Under the conditions of an authoritarian state model, it is incredibly difficult for a person not connected with power to get to the top positions. Don’t be surprised that the leaders of the rating are entirely security officials and officials, as well as businessmen from their circle.

Compiling such a list under an authoritarian regime has its own specifics.

Therefore, in the influence rating, for example in America, Obama will have 2%, Vice President Biden will have 0.5%, and all other citizens will account for 97.5%. In Belarus, one person has 60%, almost unlimited power, he can make and implement, one might say, any decisions, and the weight of all other citizens taken together is much less.

At the same time, the positions of many officials and businessmen at the top of the list are not very strong. The ranking position is often related to the position a person holds, rather than to his personality.

Absolutely all of our experts placed Alexander Lukashenko in the first line of the rating.

In general, we believe that compiling such a rating is not without meaning. Still, the formation of a young political class, like the business class, is a very important process for the formation of a nation, and it is important to track it, despite the fact that individuals may come into the focus of attention accidentally or undeservedly.

Top 100 influential people of Belarus

1. - head of the country.

2. - Assistant to the President for Security Affairs.

3. - Prime Minister.

4. - Chairman of the KGB.

5. - Head of the Presidential Administration.

6. - Minister of Foreign Affairs.

7. - businessman, owner of the Triple company.

8. - Head of the Presidential Security Service.

9. - First Deputy Prime Minister.

10. - manager of the president's affairs.

11. - Chairman of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee.

12. - Chairman of the State Control Committee.

13. - Minister of Internal Affairs.

14. - businessman, former owner"Beltechexport".

15. - Deputy Prime Minister.

16. - Chairman of the National Bank.

17. - Minister of Defense.

18. - Head of the Operational Analytical Center under the President.

19. - businessman, chairman of the board of directors of Amkodor.

20. - assistant to the president.

21. - Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee.

22. - Chief Editor newspapers "SB. Belarus today."

23. - State Secretary of the Security Council.

24. - Chairman of the Central Election Commission.

25. Chief physician of the medical commission.

26. - Chairman of the Presidential Sports Club.

27. - former head coach of the hockey team “Yunost”.

28. - Chairman of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee.

29. - Chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee.

30. - Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

31. - Chairman of the Board of Priorbank.

32. - Deputy Prime Minister.

33. - Prosecutor General.

34. - Chairman of the Gomel Regional Executive Committee.

35. - Chairman of the State Customs Committee.

36. - General Director of ONT.

37. - Minister of Economy.

38. - Chairman of the Handball Federation.

39. - Chairman of the Mogilev Regional Executive Committee.

40. - singer, leader of the group “Lyapis Trubetskoy”.

41. - hole of the Information and Analytical Center of the Presidential Administration.

42. - general representative of Univest in the CIS countries.

43. - younger son leader of the country.

44. - former prime minister.

45. - General Director of BATE, head of the BATE football club.

46. ​​- First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, leader of Belaya Rus.

47. - Assistant to the President for Issues physical culture, sports and tourism development.

48. - assistant to the president for ideology.

49. - First Vice-President of the National Olympic Committee.

50. -Orthodox Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Exarch of All Belarus.

51. Vladimir Andreichenko- Speaker of the House of Representatives.

52. Anatoly Kalinin- Deputy Prime Minister.

53. Andrey Kharkovets- Minister of Finance.

54. Sergey Gurulev- Chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee of Belarus.

55. Alexander Boyechko- Chairman of the State Border Committee.

56. Alexander Moshensky- owner of the enterprises “Santa Bremor” and “Savushkin Product”.

57. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz- Catholic Metropolitan of Minsk-Mogilev, Archbishop.

58. Nikolai Statkevich- political prisoner, ex-presidential candidate.

59. Sergey Rumas- Chairman of the Board of the Development Bank of Belarus, Chairman of the Football Federation.

60. Ales Bialiatsky- political prisoner, human rights activist, Nobel Prize nominee.

61. Pavel Sevyarynets- political prisoner, co-chairman of Christian Democracy.

62. Oleg Proleskovsky- Minister of Information.

63. Yuri Zisser- owner of the portal tut.by.

64. Svetlana Kalinkina- editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Narodnaya Volya”.

65. Zenon Paznyak- leader of the Conservative Christian Party of the Belarusian Popular Front, political emigrant.

66. Andrey Tur- Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration.

67. Vitaly Arbuzov- owner of Fenox Automative Gmbh.

68. Victor Zuraev- commander of the special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for combating terrorism "Almaz".

69. Alexander Milinkevich- leader of the “For Freedom” movement.

70. Zhanna Litvina- Chairman of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

71. Yuri Karaev- Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

72. Victor Kamenkov- Chairman of the Supreme Economic Court.

73. Valentin Sukalo- Chairman of the Supreme Court.

74. Victoria Azarenko- tennis player.

75. Pavel Latushko- Ambassador of Belarus to France.

76. Khasalbek Atabekov- commander of military unit No. 3214.

77. Oleg Khusaenov- owner of the company "Zubr Capital".

78. Valery Ivanov- General Director of the Belarusian Potash Company.

79. Sergei Maskevich- Minister of education.

80. Evgeny Shigalov- Director of the Zhdanovichi market.

81. Joseph Seredich- editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Narodnaya Volya”.

82. Valery Tsepkalo- Director of the Belarusian High Technology Park.

83. Arkady Dobkin- President of EPAM Systems.

84. Lyavon Volsky- singer, composer.

85. Fedor Full- Orthodox archpriest.

86. Valentin Shaev- Chairman of the Investigative Committee.

87. Natalia Radina- editor-in-chief of the Charter-97 website.

88. Vitaly Shuravko- owner of the portal Onliner.by.

89. Vladimir Neklyaev- poet, politician, leader of the “Tell the Truth” campaign.

90. Sergei Pisarik- Chairman of the Board of Belarusbank.

91. Sergey Ablameiko- Rector of the Belarusian State University.

92. Vladimir Shimov- Rector of the Belarusian State Economic University.

93. Pavel Topouzidis- owner of Tabak-Invest and the network shopping centers"Crown".

94. Sergey Teterin- Alexander Lukashenko's tennis coach.

95. Alexander Ozerets- Minister of Energy.

96. Anatoly Lebedko- Chairman of the United Civil Party.

97. Vladimir Orlov- writer.

98. Sergey Musienko- sociologist, leader Analytical Center EcooM.

99. Alexey Vaganov- owner of the Lada Garant company.

100. Vasily Zharko- Minister of Health.

Among the representatives of the independent society, only musician Sergei Mikhalok was in the first half of the hundred.

Among the opposition figures, the highest ranks were taken by Nikolai Statkevich (58th place), Ales Bialiatsky (60th), and Pavel Sevyarynets (61st). It is on their fate that future relations with Western countries depend. Ales Bialiatsky was one of the nominees for the Nobel Prize last year.

The low places of security officials Alexander Boyechko (55th) and Valentin Shaev (86th) can be explained by the fact that they have only recently been in their positions.

The second part of the list included quite a few representatives of the media sphere.

Among the clergy, in addition to Filaret, the list also included Catholic Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who publicly uses the Belarusian language everywhere.

Judges Viktor Kamenkov and Valentin Sukalo were located nearby. 72nd and 73rd places, respectively, may indicate the dependence of the judicial system on the executive branch.

Only one active athlete was included in the hundred influential ones - tennis player Victoria Azarenka (74th),

Lyavon Volsky represents music (84th), and Vladimir Orlov (97th) represents literature. The list includes pro-government analyst Sergei Musienko, who often voices new ideas of the establishment (98th).

Business is also present in the second half of the ranking. This is the owner of the Savushkin Product and Santa Bremor enterprises, the honorary consul of Iceland in Belarus Alexander Moshensky (56th) and the creator of the programming company EPAM Systems, competitive in the West, Arkady Dobkin (83rd), as well as their “colleagues” millionaires.

Of the rectors, only Sergei Ablameiko from BSU (91st) and Vladimir Shimov from BSEU (92nd) were able to make it onto the list.

Maxim Berezinsky, owner of the goals.by portal
Vitaly Volyanyuk, editor-in-chief of the Business News agency, former political commentator for Sovetskaya Belorussia
Ales Gerasimenko, columnist for Economic Newspaper
Adam Globus, writer, publisher
Igor Hubarevich, entrepreneur, former employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yuri Drakokhrust, political commentator for Radio Liberty
Alexander Zimovsky, former chairman of Belteleradiocompany
Svetlana Kalinkina, chief editor of Narodnaya Volya
Vladimir Matskevich, methodologist
Alexander Chubrik, Director of the IPM Research Center

200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus is a project of the Internet portal “Daily”, which the publication has been preparing and publishing since 2007.

The project, first of all, has an educational goal. On the one hand, it promotes personal recognition and increases the population’s loyalty to private business in general; on the other hand, it serves as a source of information for potential partners and investors who are going to implement projects in Belarus.

Getting into and being included in the top 200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus is determined by two criteria:

1. Success is the actual share of a particular person in the price of the business that belongs to him.

Ownership and share are calculated based on data from the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus (Unified Register legal entities and individual entrepreneur), registration authorities of other countries where the main business is located or the entrepreneur conducts business, as well as on the basis of other open sources and insider information. Business cost if available financial indicators calculated using traditional methods for assessing value (cost, income, comparable sales). Depending on the volume of financial information and its sources, it is chosen which approach is appropriate in assessing a specific business and, accordingly, the current capital of the person involved in the top 200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus.

2. Influentiality is an additional criterion, given by us due to the specific conditions of doing business in Belarus and the impossibility at the moment to publish monetary indicators.

It is based on the concept of business sustainability in economic conditions, which have developed over 25 years in the Belarusian economy. First of all, this is an assessment of the level of communication of a particular business owner with the state regulator, as well as his role (influence) in the region and the economy as a whole. A group of experts (at least 10 people) that is directly related to one of the markets whose participants are represented in the top 200 (IT, finance, woodworking, mechanical engineering, food industry etc.), using a point system, determines the degree of influence of a person in a given period of time.

The Top 200 successful and influential businessmen of Belarus are used as a source of information on private business in Belarus not only by Belarusian companies and government agencies, but also by the European Commission, the EAEU and departments of other countries of the world.

Several features of the 2016 rating are the sharp decline of the previous leader, Yuri Chizh. From first place he jumped to 12th. And his arrested comrade Vladimir Yaprintsev was completely ignored by experts. Meanwhile, the rating was topped by the founder of World of Tanks, Viktor Kisly.

1. Victor Kisly

39 years (1976)
Nicosia (Cyprus)

General Director of Wargaming Group Ltd., Deputy Director for Development of Game Stream JLLC

2. Vitaly Arbuzov

51 years old (1964)
Minsk

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fenox Global Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fenox Venture Capital

Interests: auto components, auto production, venture capital investments, retail

3. Alexander Moshensky

45 years (1970)
Brest

General Director of JV LLC "Santa Impex Brest", member of the supervisory board of OJSC "Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus"

Interests: food, retail, leisure and entertainment, real estate

4. Pavel Topouzidis

59 years (1956)
Minsk

Chairman of the Board of Tabak-Invest LLC

5. Alexander Shakutin

56 years (1959)
Minsk

Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Amkodor - Holding Management Company, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CJSC Absolutbank

Interests: mechanical engineering, fuel and energy complex, investments, finance

6. Evgeniy Baskin

50 years (1965)
Mogilev

General Director of SJSC Servolux

Interests: food, Agriculture, retail

7. Sergey Litvin

49 years (1966)
Monaco (Monaco)

8. Vladimir Vasilko

49 years (1966)
Monaco (Monaco)

Member of the supervisory board of Eurotorg LLC

Interests: retail, trade, alcohol, real estate, food, finance

9. Alexey Oleksin

Director of SJSC Energo Oil, member of the supervisory board of CJSC MTBank

Interests: fuel and energy complex, finance, real estate, food

10. Alexey Zhukov

48 years (1967)
Minsk

General Director of the Alutech Group of Companies

Interests: building materials

11. Vladimir Peftiev

58 years (1957)
Minsk

Ex-Chairman general meeting shareholders of CJSC "Beltechexport", ex-co-owner of CJSC " Management Company holding "Beltech Holding"

Interests: investments

12. Yuri Chizh

52 years old (1963)
Minsk

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Triple Group of Companies, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CJSC FC Dynamo-Minsk

Interests: construction and real estate, building materials, retail, food, agriculture, recreation and entertainment, pharmaceuticals

13. Viktor Petrovich

Director of Tabak-invest LLC

Interests: tobacco, retail, real estate, recreation and entertainment

14. Arkady Dobkin

55 years (1960)
Newtown (Pennsylvania, USA)

Co-owner, president and chairman of the board of directors of EPAM Systems Inc.

Interests: IT

15. Nikolay Katselapov

Nicosia (Cyprus)

Interests: IT, finance, real estate

16. Ivan Mikhnevich

Nicosia (Cyprus)

Co-owner of Wargaming Group Ltd.

Interests: IT, finance, real estate.

17. Nikolai Vorobey

Novopolotsk

Co-owner of Interservice LLC, member of the supervisory board of Absolutbank CJSC

Interests: fuel and energy complex, recreation and entertainment, woodworking, real estate, investments

18. Nikolay Martynov

59 years (1956)
Vitebsk

General Director of LLC "Management Company of the Holding "Belarusian Leather and Shoe Company "Marko", member of the Supervisory Board of OJSC "Belinvestbank"

Interests: shoes, retail, real estate

19. Valentin Bayko

45 years (1970)
Grodno

Chairman of the general meeting of participants of JLLC "Conte Spa"

Interests: textiles, real estate, retail, leisure and entertainment

20. Dmitry Bayko

Grodno

Deputy general director JLLC "Conte Spa"

Interests: Textiles, real estate, retail, leisure and entertainment

21. Valery Shumsky

55 years (1960)
Moscow, Russia)

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yukola Group of Companies

Interests: fuel and energy complex, recreation and entertainment

22. Sergey Savitsky

49 years (1966)
Minsk

General Director of LLC "International Automotive Holding "Atlant-M"

Interests: retail

23. Oleg Khusaenov

51 years old (1964)
Minsk

General Director of Zubr Capital LLC, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Atlant-M International Automobile Holding LLC

In Belarus there are often cases when successful businessmen from the chairs of directors of companies and enterprises find themselves in a prison cell.

Nasha Niva has collected the most high-profile cases of recent years:

Evgeny Shigalov

The owner of the Zhdanovichi market, Evgeny Shigalov, was detained in April 2008. He was charged under criminal article 424, part 3, “Abuse of power or official authority.”

Shigalov had health problems at that time, so the family actively lobbied for the businessman’s release with a request to release him to carry out an operation in London. As a result, Shigalov was released on bail in the amount of $4.5 million. Shigalov later paid another $40 million in damages to the state. In October 2009, Lukashenko released Shigalov from criminal liability. Two years ago, Evgeny Shigalov passed away at the age of 61.

Victor Shevtsov

This “oligarch” was taken into custody in October 2011. Shevtsov implemented projects related to Venezuela. He owned the Belzarubezhstroy company, as well as Trustbank. The company was involved in construction projects in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Korea. He personally knew Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Hugo Chavez.

Lukashenko reacted to the initiation of the case as follows: “If he doesn’t pay the money, he’ll go to jail.” Moreover, the head of state said that Shevtsov must pay two or three times the amount. Shevtsov was accused of embezzling $10 million. In December 2012, the businessman was amnestied.

Yuri Dankov

The owner of the Dankov Club entertainment establishment was arrested right at his workplace in September 2012. The Moskovsky District Court of Minsk sentenced him to 8 years in prison, which he is still serving. A number of charges were brought against Dankov, from tax evasion to involvement in prostitution.

Dankov tried to run for president of Belarus in 2001, but did not collect the required 100 thousand signatures.

Vitaly Kostogorov

A member of the Council of the Republic, businessman Kostogorov had Russian citizenship and also owned luxury real estate in Moscow. His apartment in the Russian capital was valued at $1.5 million.

Kostogorov headed Politex CJSC in Mogilev, which was engaged in the production of “environmentally friendly modern nonwovens for textile, light, furniture, automotive industries."

In the summer of 2014, Vitaly Kostogorov was detained by Belarusian special services. He was accused of tax evasion. The businessman was released on December 30, 2014, after he paid 340 thousand euros. After that they stopped talking about the criminal case.

Anna Shareiko

Shareiko, like Vitaly Kostogorov, was a member of the upper house of parliament. She headed the Vitebsk Broiler Poultry Farm.

She was stripped of her parliamentary immunity. A trial is currently taking place in the Supreme Court. Anna Shareiko and the feed supplier for her enterprise, Valdemaras Norkusu, are being tried at the same time. On March 15, it turned out that the defendants had filed an application with the registry office. Shareiko strongly denies allegations of corruption.

Vladimir Yaprintsev

The right hand of Yuri Chizh, the head of the judo and sambo federation, Vladimir Yaprintsev was considered one of the richest people in the country. He ended up behind bars in August 2015. His son Kazbek was arrested along with him. KGB head Valery Vakulchik said that Yaprintsev is accused of fraud. According to the unofficial version, Yaprintsev tried to withdraw capital outside of Belarus. He continues to be in jail under investigation.

Andrey Pavlovsky

One of the most successful businessmen in the Grodno region, owner of the Biokom company, Andrei Pavlovsky, is accused of evading taxes in the amount of about $8 million. Pavlovsky spent less than a month in the pre-trial detention center and is currently under house arrest.

Yuri Chizh

This is not the first time that the most famous businessman in Belarus has found himself in a pre-trial detention center. Chizh was already detained in May 2007 in the case of the general director of Belneftekhim Borovsky. However, everyone learned about that incident after the fact.

Now everyone knew about Chizh’s arrest on the same day. Chizh built a powerful business empire, Triple, which was involved in petroleum products and construction. They say that in Lately The businessman was experiencing financial difficulties. Chizh was closely acquainted with Alexander Lukashenko. Since March 11, he has been kept in a KGB pre-trial detention center.

Evgeniy Baskin

Baskin is among the top 10 richest people in Belarus. In the Mogilev region there was no one at all who could compare with Baskin. He built his business on chicken and feed. Everyone in the country knows his brands “Brothers Grill” and “Petrukha”. Baskin was detained on March 14. So far, the security forces have not provided information about what exactly Evgeniy Baskin is accused of.

Many people are interested in who is the richest and most successful person in Belarus. In this article we will tell you who the richest people in Belarus are, how much they earn and what kind of wealth they own. We recently presented a ranking of the richest people in Russia, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with it too.

The richest people in Belarus are not yet on par with their global counterparts. The fortunes of Belarusian oligarchs are relatively small.

It is not customary in Belarus to advertise one’s wealth. This is due to the fact that rich people, the so-called elite, are not very liked in this country. It just so happened.

Belarusian oligarchs have very a large number of assets outside your country: in Russia, Ukraine, and even in some European countries.

Top 5. Vyacheslav Zarenkov.

Vyacheslav Zarenkov was born in the Vetebsk region of the Republic of Belarus. He studied at the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute, back in Soviet times.

He started his career at Glavzapstroy. He started working as a fitter and ended up as a department head. After that, he took part in the construction of residential and industrial facilities real estate.

In 1987, Vyacheslav Zarenkov organized LenSpetsSMU CJSC. Today, this company is considered a very large one, accounting for 20% of the housing construction market.

Vyacheslav very often uses non-standard solutions to implement his projects.

State: US$500,000,000.

Top 4. Mikhail Abyzov.

Mikhail Abyzov was born in Minsk. Today he holds the position of chairman of the boards of directors of the E4 Group, which includes 13 holdings.

The first time he worked as a slinger in a construction brigade.

Today he owns shares in the following companies: Novosibirskenergo, British Power Fuel, and SibirEnergo holding.

State: US$1 billion.

Top 3. Dmitry Mazepin.

Dmitry Mazepin was born in Belarus, in Minsk. Dmitry is a very private person, we know very little about him.

At the age of 28, he first took a very responsible leadership position, becoming the president of a multinational corporation.

After leaving this post, he opens his own business, organizing the Uralchem ​​holding. Mazepin today employs 12,000 people.

Uralchem ​​has taken second place in the world in terms of ammonium nitrate production.

State: US$1.4 billion.

Top 2. Andrey Klyamko.

Andrei Klyamko takes second place in our ranking of the richest people in Belarus. He is a co-owner of the Smart Holding group. In addition, he invests in profitable sectors of the economy.

Its main assets are located in Ukraine. They work very closely with Rinat Akhmetov.

Andrey Klyamko also owns a business in the agricultural sector.

State: US$1.9 billion.

Top 1. The richest person in Belarus is Andrei Melnichenko.

Today Andrei Melnichenko is the richest person in Belarus. O was born in the city of Gomel. In the 90s, together with his friends, he organized his first business in the tourism sector.

Having received his first profit, Andrey invests money in new business- currency exchange.

Then the oligarch opened MDM Bank. Having assumed the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Now the businessman is interested in the industry, which brings in very good money.

State US$11.4 billion.

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