Billionaire Russian Oligarch Alisher Usmanov

Mike Lazaridis is a famous Greek Canadian entrepreneur, business executive and philanthropist. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on March 14th, 1961, and came to Canada at the age of 5, and was raised in Windsor, Ontario. As a child, Lazaridis was an overachiever. At the age of 12, he won a prize for reading every science book in the Windsor Public Library. He was captivated by science and how things worked; he and his friends spent hours in his basement building things such as rockets and radios. Mike Lazaridis is an Officer of the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario, was named Nation Builder of the Year in 2002 by the Globe and Mail, made the Time Top 100 List of Most Influential People in 2005. He was the founder and CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), which is known today as Blackberry.

His rags to riches life represents many ideals associated with the American Dream, but through his illegal actions he is the opposite of a dream. He achieved his status through gang violence and sale of illegal substances (The Income Tax Law is a lot of Bunk). These illegal actions began as a result of Italian oppression in Chicago where Capone lived for a majority of his life (Corsino). In an article pertaining to the start of organized crime, “Italians in Chicago heights experienced an abiding social, economic, and political discrimination” (Corsino). The isolation of a social group forces them to find an outlet to success. The success of crime groups in the 1920s does not correlate with initial violence due to it being inefficient for running illegal operations (Corsino). Instead of initial violence Italian crime groups manipulated the sale of illegal substances, which created successful ventures. In relation to Capone, society was set up for his success after prohibition and Italian

Trust entails honesty, confidence, and assurance. Without trust, bonds will break and many relationships will fail. In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn explains that the friendship between Alyosha and Ivan expands due to the trust that is found between them. Trust is a valuable thing to many human beings including Ivan, but the power to lose grip of trust that has been already made is an easy task. Although never specifically stated in the text, Ivan, the novel's protagonist, seems to keep faith in Alyosha throughout the book. An unknown individual expresses that trust is easily lost as “Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to loose all three” (Unknown). In the Russian Gulag, trust is very hard to find within the prisoners and is effortless to neglect. Out

The story starts at 1835 in Scotland where he was born into poor linen weavers, forced into immigrating to America and becomes the embodiment of the American Dream as the founder of Carnegie Steel. He is still active in his retirement years working as a peace activist and a philanthropist until the end of his story in 1919. His life starts in America working odd jobs: from a messenger in the outdoors to a bobbin weaver in a stuffy factory. Humble beginnings didn’t stop him from becoming the richest man in the world.

He was a huge libertarian and even supported Ron Paul. I mention his past in hopes of getting you to understand the kinds of criminals who are on here on the dark web. Now, returning back to the main point of this section. As some U.S. congresspersons called for Silk Road to be closed down, Ulbricht made a jaunty remark to Bates in a talk about how yet another national media outlet had said his stupendous blow for flexibility. Then, government specialists in Maryland and Chicago were on his trail. Country Security operators examining approaching mail on remote flights began seeing many deliberately wrapped little shipments of medications, a few Ecstasy pills,in envelopes with "StudyAbroad.com" return addresses and sheets of paper inside, asking beneficiaries not to neglect to give client input. By July 2013, the feds were so inside the Silk Road framework that a specialist could accept the online character of an individual from the Silk Road staff. Silk Road arrived at its deadlock on the evening of October 1, 2013. Government operators had trailed Ulbricht from his humble house to the library, and captured him while he was talking on the web with what he thought was one of his representatives, who was, truth be told, a FBI specialist sitting close-by. With Ulbricht signed on to his PC at a table in the sci-fi area, two operators put on a show to have a noisy local spat behind him. At the point when Ulbricht swung to watch them, a third specialist jumped onto his open portable PC, ensuring he couldn't close it.

Drug lord’s, drug king’s, ceo of crime, are some of the names given to powerful drug cartel leaders. There are many such criminals throughout history that has gained these titles but a few have been so powerful and acquired so much wealth that they have gained widespread infamy. Pablo Escobar was one. From the 1970s until his death in 1993, Escobar was considered by many to be the most powerful drug lord in the world. With a net worth that earned him a spot on Forbes magazine’s Richest Man in the World list. Escobar was instrumental in getting his country out of debt, a creator of jobs for the Colombian people, and widely revered by many (Ramsey), all while sitting at the head of a large and powerful illegal drug organization. With his criminal

Bernie Madoff came from a poor background after his parents emigrated from another country. He had the captivating story of someone coming from nothing and turning it into a lavish lifestyle. With the help of in-laws, he was able to invest in his dream of owning his own financial company. He made a name for himself by volunteering his time at Securities and Exchange Commission and being one of the first firms to use electronic trading. He was also a powerful figure in Washington, D.C. donating to the campaigns of both Republican and Democratic parties. While lobbying for stock market restructuring, he became a big figure among Wall Street and was treated like royalty at social events. He was able to manipulate some of the most wealthiest and

In 1938, he joined the Russian Army and worked as a tank inventor. During, the war he had several tank inventions to improve the tanks. Also, during the war he was wounded and while he was in the hospital he worked on the invention of an automatic riffle. He named it after him “Automatic Kalashnikov” which is known as the AK-47. According to www.biography.com “Mikhail said that he was not motivated by money but by service to his country.”

Rostyslav is a caring and trustworthy person, with a great sense of humor and a warm heart, a great father and husband. He is very health-conscious and promotes a good health habits not only professionally, but in his everyday life, and also tries to get his friends follow a suit. Rostyslav loves being outdoors, skiing is his passion. I had a chance to observe that when our families skied together in Taos, NM several years ago. He promotes a sustainable living, recycles, gardens, and overall is a person why tries to leave a minimal ecological footprint and preserve the environment.

By using the scrap piece of metal, the author is able to represent Shukhov’s resourcefulness, creativity, and overall hopeful attitude. To begin,

Putin grew up very poor with three entire families in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Russin President even remembers hunting rats in his apartment stairwell.

The man.The myth.The moneymaker,Donald Trump.Whether you know him from his hotels or as a politician, he sure knows how to invest in his money. With his 4.5 billion dollar net worth, he is pretty much untouchable,but like all of us he has his moments. As a kid trump has always been rich, so it’s no surprise that he is rich now. Nevertheless he still had to work to get where he is today. He took over the company in 1980 from his dad. The company has been a family legacy for quite sometime now.

Scott Rothstein was convicted of the 4th largest Ponzi scheme in history with an estimated 1.2 Billion dollars defrauded from investors. The scheme was predicated upon purchasing fabricated "structured settlements, which involved people selling large settlements in legal cases for lump sums of cash.

Oligarchy as it is known in Aristotle’s politics; is a government run by a small group of people, ‘elites’. However, the oligarchy which this essay addresses is currently referred to in Russia as “a very wealthy and politically well-connected businessman...one who is the main owner of a conglomerate of enterprises and has close ties with the president” (Aslund and Dabrowski, 2007; 144). In the 1990s Russia’s economic reforms are said to have created the rise of a small group of oligarchs who gained an overwhelming amount of power and control. By 1997, this small group of previously unknown businessmen and bankers, often with gangster ties, had acquired control of many of the key parts of the Russian economy. Why did they emerge? It is argued by David Satter that three processes facilitated the emergence of the oligarchs. The first was hyperinflation and the social, economic and political consequences. The second was the process of privatisation, and finally the third was criminalisation (Satter, 2003). However, were these powerful oligarchs just a phase during the transition from Soviet to Post-Soviet Russia? Even with Putin’s efforts and declaration to distance the oligarchs from politics and power, and start a war against them exemplified by the Khodorkovsky affair, are oligarchs still significantly powerful in contemporary Russia? What is the role they play in Russia? It seems that the power of those original oligarchs of the 1990s has decreased or been concealed in

The Russian Mafia, also known as Bratva (Brotherhood) is a collection of various organized crime groups that originated during the former Soviet Union era. It is made up of underworld leadership in which engages in providing illegal goods and services that range anywhere from drugs and weapons smuggling to gambling and human trafficking. As in the U.S, there is no universally accepted definition of organized crime in Russia. However, the Bratva shares many basic characteristics with other well-known criminal organizations such as the Italian Mafia. Therefore, the definition that has been commonly used in the U.S will be fitting for the Bratva as well. The FBI defines organized crime as, "any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities" (FBI). The Bratva falls under this definition with one of its many groups, the 'Vory v Zakone ', which translates to 'Thieves-in-law '. They are bound by a code of honor in which states that one is not to make a living on anything other than thievery, complete submission to the laws of criminal life, including obligations to support the criminal ideal and refusal to participate in all political activities (Omics).