Farkhad Teimurovich Akhmedov is an Azerbaijani-Russian businessman and a former politician in Russia, departing his role in 2009.
21 Facts About Farkhad Akhmedov
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Farkhad Akhmedov is a former representative in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
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Farkhad Akhmedov was raised in Goychay located in the central region of Azerbaijan, where his father worked.
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From 1986 to 1994, Farkhad Akhmedov lived in London, initially engaging in the sale of furs in international markets.
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Farkhad Akhmedov bought a minority stake in Northgas from Bechtel, an American construction company.
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Farkhad Akhmedov headed the Board of Directors of the FARCO Securities investment company and entered the Board of Directors of Northgas Closed Joint Stock Company.
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Farkhad Akhmedov headed the Board of Directors of Northgas, CJSC in 2002.
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Farkhad Akhmedov was involved in an agreement signed in Baku on 20 September 1994 between the newly independent Azerbaijan and an international consortium of oil companies on the development of Caspian energy resources.
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In 2004, Farkhad Akhmedov was appointed a representative of the Administration of the Krasnodar Territory in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
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Farkhad Akhmedov was the first, and remains the only ethnic Azerbaijani to have sat in the upper chamber of the legislative authority of the Russian Federation.
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Farkhad Akhmedov has a personal blog on the Echo of Moscow portal, a liberal news source in Russia that has fallen afoul of Russia's censorship of coverage of the war in Ukraine.
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In January 2018, Farkhad Akhmedov was included in the so-called "Kremlin report" - a US Treasury document submitted to the US Congress in accordance with the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act.
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Farkhad Akhmedov supported the liberal reforms of Azerbaijani president, Ilham Aliyev.
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Farkhad Akhmedov acted as a middleman between the American PR firm Ballard Partners and the authoritarian Ilham Aliyev regime in Azerbaijan.
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Farkhad Akhmedov has been married three times with six children from those marriages.
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Farkhad Akhmedov's wife, Anna Akhmedova was born in 1983.
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Farkhad Akhmedov's children were born in the United States and UK, they are believed to have dual-citizenship.
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Since 2011, Farkhad Akhmedov has permanently been on the list of top 200 richest people in Russia according to the Russian version of Forbes magazine.
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Farkhad Akhmedov owns the $300 million superyacht Luna which he bought from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
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Farkhad Akhmedov refused to recognise the court's decision, after which the court issued an international order to freeze his assets.
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On March 25,2023, a 35-minute audio recording of a conversation between, presumably, Producer Iosif Prigozhin and Farkhad Akhmedov, was widely circulated in the Ukrainian and Russian media and caused a public sensation in both countries.