1. Mikail Safarbekovich Gutseriev was born on 9 March 1958 and is a Russian billionaire businessperson of Ingush descent.
45 Facts About Mikhail Gutseriev
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Mikhail Gutseriev is the former owner of Russneft, one of Russia's largest oil companies.
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Mikhail Gutseriev fled Russia in 2007 after being charged with tax evasion.
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Mikhail Gutseriev was born on 9 March 1958 in a large Ingush family in Akmolinsk.
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Mikhail Gutseriev finished high school No 23 in Grozny, Checheno-Ingushskaya ASSR.
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In 1991, Mikhail Gutseriev was elected Chairman of Businessmen Association of Checheno-Ingush ASSR.
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In 1992, when Dzhokhar Dudayev took power, Mikhail Gutseriev had to leave his business and moved to Moscow, where he founded industrial and financial company "BIN", uniting industrial, trading and financial enterprises.
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However, in August 1997, in order to complete the construction of ZEWI facilities Mikhail Gutseriev created the Center for Entrepreneurship Development.
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In 1981, Mikhail Gutseriev graduated from the Dzhambul Technological Institute of Light and Food Industry with a degree in "Leather and Fur Technology".
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In 1996 Mikhail Gutseriev initiated, developed and proposed for consideration of the State Duma a regulation on establishing a "Center for International Business", a standard offshore zone for non-residents.
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In 1999 for the second time Mikhail Gutseriev was elected a State Duma Deputy for the Third Convocation of the Federal Assembly.
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However, on 14 January 2000, Mikhail Gutseriev was elected as the President of Slavneft at the extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the company and had to turn down the Deputy's mandate.
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Mikhail Gutseriev is the author of a monograph and an array of research publications on free economic free economic zones and offshore business issues in Russia.
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On 27 February 2001, Mikhail Gutseriev was elected the Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
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In 2002 the stocks of Slavneft were sold to Sibneft Consortium and Tyumen Oil Company for US$1.86 bn, and Mikhail Gutseriev established and became a head of OJSC NK "RussNeft" in 2002.
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In September 2002, Mikhail Gutseriev founded and ran RussNeft, the oil and gas company.
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Mikhail Gutseriev stepped down as a President of RussNeft and announced his suspension of entrepreneurial activity and his decision to move on to scientific endeavor.
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On 28 August 2007 The Tverskoy court of Moscow issued arrest warrant in absentia for Mikhail Gutseriev, meeting the request of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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On 16 October 2007 Mikhail Gutseriev applied for political asylum to the Border and Immigration Agency of the Home Office but this information was officially refuted.
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On 7 May 2010, Mikhail Gutseriev came back to Russia in order to visit the tombs of his parents and son.
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Between 1996 and 2006, Mikhail Gutseriev played a key role in helping the Russian special services to release a large number of hostages kidnapped in the North Caucasus by various criminal groups.
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Mikhail Gutseriev "played a decisive role" in the release of Stanislav Taslitsky, the head of the construction of a water pipeline in Ingushetia, and the banker Viktor Morgun, from the captivity.
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Mikhail Gutseriev took part in the successful release of five women who were fraudulently lured to Chechnya and abducted.
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Besides, Mikhail Gutseriev was among those who rescued from captivity Ilez Deniev, a religious figure and the son of Sheikh Deni Arsanov.
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In early 1999, S Stepashin asked Gutseriev to help rescue the servants of the Russian Orthodox Church, Peter Makarov and Sergei Potapov.
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In 1999, during the assault of Grozny by the armed forces, Mikhail Gutseriev managed to agree with war lords upon the evacuation of about 90 people living in a nursing home in the Staropromyslovsky district of the capital of the Chechen Republic.
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Mikhail Gutseriev obtained a number of concessions from the terrorists, namely to accept supplies of drinking water for children, to evacuate the bodies of the hostages they killed and to release 26 people.
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Nevertheless, according to the conclusion of the commission for evaluation of the operational headquarters actions, "the involvement of reputable members of the Ingush diaspora Mikhail Gutseriev and Aushev in the negotiations was a timely measure, adequate to the current situation".
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In 2006, at the request of the authorities, Mikhail Gutseriev was again involved in the negotiation process and helped to release a member of the Ingush parliament, Magomed Chakhkiev.
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Mikhail Gutseriev is the biggest owner of the commercial real estate on Tverskaya Street in Moscow.
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Development of industrial companies owned by Mikhail Gutseriev allowed purchasing new assets leading to business great diversification.
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Mikhail Gutseriev became a head of the Group's Board who defines the development strategy of the holding.
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Mikhail Gutseriev has been implementing business projects in Belarus since 2000, when he was appointed by the governments of Russia and Belarus as president of Slavneft, the Russian and Belarusian state oil and gas company.
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In 2005 in order to increase export opportunities, RussNeft, established by Mikhail Gutseriev, built an oil loading railway terminal in Bryansk region to deliver raw materials to Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.
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Mikhail Gutseriev built an elite private gymnasium in Drazdy, which Nikolai Lukashenko graduated from in 2022.
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In 2010 Mikhail Gutseriev became the key player in the broadcasting market of the Russian Federation, owning a total of eight Media and Radio stations.
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In January 2017 Mikhail Gutseriev became an owner of Bridge Media Group, one of the largest television holdings of the country that includes number of the popular music channels.
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Mikhail Gutseriev is a producer for different shows, TV programs and music videos.
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Mikhail Gutseriev acted as a producer for Ani Lorak DIVA show, The Wight Swan and Anna Karenina films, REKA FEST festivals and BRIDGE TV NEED FOR FEST in Turkey, produced Russian national football team hymn, Grammy Award exhibition in Russia and other projects.
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In 2022, Mikhail Gutseriev was sanctioned by Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ukraine in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Mikhail Gutseriev is married and has two sons and a daughter.
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The younger brother of Mikhail Gutseriev, Sait-Salam was born on 1959 and is a businessman.
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Mikhail Gutseriev transferred his Rossneft stake to Sait-Salam when he was placed under sanctions.
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In 2020 during the pandemic Mikhail Gutseriev offered Moscow authorities the use of his hotels to fight the coronavirus.
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Representatives of the family told reporters that Said has no business ties with his father and that Mikhail Gutseriev has nothing to do with these assets, while at the same time, a significant part of these properties were purchased when Said was still studying and not involved in business.