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A list of billionaires and oligarchs from CIS countries, most notably the Russian Federation.
This list was developed by the OpenSanctions team in cooperation with CORRECT!V and Lighthouse Reports. It is intended as a starting point for research into oligarch holdings, and a benchmark against which sanctions in response to the invasion of Ukraine can be evaluated.
While some of the entries are imported simply on the base of internet research, the bulk of the list is sourced from existing lists of key Russian businesspeople and political power brokers. It includes persons based on the following sources:
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| Publisher: | OpenSanctions non-official source This list is sourced from multiple origins and constitutes original research by OpenSanctions and media partners. | ||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default | ||||||
| Information: | docs.google.com | ||||||
| Source data: | docs.google.com · CSV | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: weekly | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2024-12-21 00:12:04 | ||||||
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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
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source.csv | Source data | 9.1 KB |
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You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
This dataset consolidates entities targeted by the following sanctions programs, policy regimes or sub-lists:
| ID | Title | Issuer | Target countries |
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[US-CAATSA2018] | US Section 241 CAATSA Report (2018) | Treasury United States | Russia |
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Vladimir Gusinsky | Person | Spain · Soviet Union · Israel · Russia | |
| Oleksandr Yaroslavsky | Person | Ukraine | |
| Victor Pinchuk | Person | Ukraine · Soviet Union | |
| Halyna Hereha | Person | Ukraine · Soviet Union | |
| Ihor Kolomoyskyi | Person | Ukraine · Cyprus · Soviet Union · Israel | |
| Alexander Knaster | Person | United Kingdom | |
| Konstantin Kagalovsky | Person | Soviet Union · Russia | |
| Yuriy Kosyuk | Person | Ukraine | |
| Alexander Smolensky | Person | Soviet Union · Russia | |
| Henadiy Boholyubov | Person | Ukraine · United Kingdom · Cyprus · Israel | |
| Rinat Akhmetov | Person | Kyrgyzstan · Ukraine | |
| Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Person | Soviet Union · Russia | |
| Yuriy Milner | Person | Soviet Union · Israel · Russia | |
| Aleksey Ananyev | Person | Russia | |
| Dmitry Ananyev | Person | Cyprus · Russia |
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