Boris Iosifovich Mints is a Russian oligarch with interests in real estate and finance, and co-founder of Otkritie FC Bank.
26 Facts About Boris Mints
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Boris Mints has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Boris Mints has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Boris Mints' career began at the Ivanovo Textile Institute, where he worked from 1983 until 1990.
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Simultaneously, between 1987 and 1990, Boris Mints worked at a Youth Center for Scientific Creativity.
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Boris Mints was appointed vice mayor of Ivanovo in 1990 and chaired the city property management committee until 1994.
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Between 1994 and 1996, Boris Mints worked as head of the main department of Public Assets Ministry of the Russian Federation.
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Mr Belyaev became CEO of the company, and Boris Mints was appointed chairman of the board of directors.
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Boris Mints was chairman of Otkritie Financial Corporation from 2004 until 2013 and held the position of president from 2012 until 2013.
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In 2004, Boris Mints founded the O1 Group investment company, which owns and manages assets in real estate and financial sectors.
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In 2010, Boris Mints founded the investment company O1 Properties for managing real estate assets.
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In September 2018, Boris Mints sold O1 Properties and the Future Financial Group.
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Boris Mints is a member of the board of directors of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
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Boris Mints is one of many "Russian oligarchs" named in the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, CAATSA, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017.
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In June 2019, CBR managed Otkritie petitioned the High Court in the UK to freeze $572 million of Boris Mints' assets, including a mansion in Perthshire, Scotland, known as the Tower of Lethendy.
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Boris Mints, who had lived in Malta from 2016 moved to London in spring 2018.
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Boris Mints serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Conference of European Rabbis, which is the primary Orthodox rabbinical alliance in Europe.
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Boris Mints is a Presiding Board Bureau member of the Russian Jewish Congress and vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations.
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Boris Mints is president and founder of the Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges at Tel Aviv University.
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Boris Mints was a founder of the Yegor Gaidar international foundation and between 2010 and 2020 acted as the foundation's chairman.
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Boris Mints is a member of the board of governors of Tel Aviv University and was the first recipient of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation's Miloserdiye prize, recognizing public figures for their commitment to humanitarian values.
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Boris Mints is married to Marina Vladimirovna Mints, and they have four children.
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Boris Mints's collection includes works by Serov, Korovin, Kustodiev, Konchalovsky, Polenov, Pimenov, Gerasimov.
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Dr Boris Mints has long been in conflict with Putin's kleptocracy.
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Boris Mints first encountered Putin when Mints was working to set up and improve local democracy throughout Russia.
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Boris Mints has supported various relief campaigns to help those displaced and has aided the sheltering of many Ukrainian refugees in the UK and met the Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK in the first weeks of the war to express his support.