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On Saturday, a long-prepared agreement on the sale of the Kopeyka discount chain to X5 Retail Group was finally signed in London. Owner of 100% of Kopeika Nikolay Tsvetkov (No. 26 in the Golden Hundred, worth $3.2 billion) as a result of the transaction will receive about $1.13 billion(transaction amount is 51.5 billion rubles, Kopeyka’s debt is 16.5 billion rubles). In eight years, the company's value has increased 10 times. By selling Kopeyka, Tsvetkov will not only successfully exit a long-term investment project. He is selling a business that did not really fit his image as an apologist for a healthy lifestyle, a lover of cleanliness, order and the environment.

At Uralsib, he really created all the conditions for his potential followers: there is a dining room with organic food, a room for yoga classes with a teacher, massage rooms and rooms for various spa treatments. (See our video).

Tsvetkov’s entire non-core business is now associated with the idea of ​​​​introducing a healthy lifestyle to the masses. His Organic Corporation includes organic food stores “Bio-Market” and an ecological dairy farm “Spartak” in the village of Sharapovo, Shatura district. The farm has been certified according to European standards and produces milk, sour cream, kefir and cottage cheese under the EtoLeto brand.

The Meta Health Corporation deals with diseases and their prevention. It includes the Intermed Center for Traditional Medicine and Dentistry. The Palisade Corporation is engaged in landscaping. The nursery for the production of rolled lawns is located on an area of ​​590 hectares in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region. Previously, this land belonged to another Tsvetkov structure - the Znak corporation. Palisade also plans to grow trees and shrubs for landscape design in the Moscow region, so as not to import them from abroad.

According to Forbes, all of these projects will receive additional funding from proceeds from the deal. The money will also be used to expand the branch network of Uralsib Bank. Planned purchases of small regional banks that have fallen in price as a result of the crisis.

Part of the fundsTsvetkov wants to invest in the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg, which belongs to his wife Galina and eldest daughter Yulia.

Part of the money will go to charity projects. These are the MIRBIS business school, the Kremlin riding school, the Victoria children's foundation and the Meta education foundation, which is engaged, in particular, in the reconstruction of Orthodox churches.

On the first day of 2019, the first lottery billionaire may appear in Russia. The size of the main prize is twice as large as the current largest win in Russia (506 million rubles). According to Stoloto, the billion will definitely be raffled off.

“Any participant in the 1264th draw can become the owner of a truly colossal sum. The mechanics are extremely simple. The guaranteed jackpot for the New Year's draw is 1 billion rubles. If there is not a single winner in the “Jackpot” category of the holiday draw, then a billion rubles will be drawn in the second round, where one or more winners will definitely appear. This means that the billion will definitely be raffled off,” comments Varvara Basanovich, the marketing director of the largest distributor of state lotteries in Russia.

For those who have never thought about it: a billion in cash is 200,000 5,000 ruble bills or 204 kg of money. If you take it in thousandths, it’s more than a ton. It is quite possible to build an all-season camp for gifted children, become an art dealer (if you distinguish impressionists from battle painters), go around the world and visit at least all the capitals of the world, or buy an island in the Caribbean. The most breakthrough and potentially profitable investments include, for example, the development of a supercomputer or an “invisibility cloak” consisting of a material that sensors cannot detect. Such uniforms are the dream of all armies in the world. However, many investment gurus recommend investing in pharmacy and biomedical technologies, since the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most dynamically growing, and people, unfortunately, always get sick. It is possible to finance the development of a promising drug. For example, this year in Russia they created a drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis: the number of patients in our country alone is estimated at 2.5 million. A billion rubles were spent on development.

Of course, you can use this amount to create the most comfortable conditions for your life. These funds will be enough to provide not only for yourself for the rest of your life, but also for your children, grandchildren and numerous relatives, including second cousins. There are several paths you can take: conservative investment methods (buying real estate, deposits, investments in stocks and bonds, etc.) or investing in a trending direction - startups. According to statistics, the most popular startups are those developing technologies for optimizing and increasing business efficiency. Among them are technologies of artificial intelligence and 3D printing, and the most breakthrough “consumer” technology is genome editing.

Thus, in the 2017 Radar Report, Saber identifies nine technology trends: artificial intelligence, augmented reality, autonomous delivery, blockchain, neural interfaces, quantum computing, space tourism, recognition technologies, virtual reality. Car sharing, grocery delivery, payment services, Internet of things, human voice recognition - whatever suits everyone’s taste. In the field of medicine, the world-famous Cleveland Clinic medical center highlights existing developments: pharmacogenetics, 3D technologies for detailed projection of cancer tumors, robotic surgeons, as well as the treatment of some pain in an unconventional way - using virtual reality. There is also prospects in Russia. For example, scientists from Novosibirsk are able to grow human skin using living cells; another team of scientists has developed rapid tests for diagnosing stroke. And the robot Vera is already consulting large companies regarding personnel selection. So creating an android robot that goes to the store or regulates traffic is a real breakthrough.

Of course, you can find the development you are interested in and invest in it, but more often startups reach the market with the help of accelerators and venture funds. The former provide financial, expert, and consulting support, while the latter invest in a “pool” of startups, from which some “shoot out.” Moreover, an investor can rely both on the instincts of a venture investment professional and on his own faith in certain technologies.

“The main trends in the world of IT and related technologies will be projects related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Examples include: the Internet of Things using AI to organize the interaction of independent devices, smart spaces (homes, offices), autonomous vehicles, analysis of all kinds of data using general and specialized AI. Such projects are worth paying attention to, but making specific predictions is now quite difficult - most likely, innovative solutions will exceed the expectations of not only people not associated with the IT field, but also many specialists from the field,” says the director of the company resident in the special economic zone “ Innopolis" OWN.

At the same time, you need to understand that it is possible to “grow” your capital through startups. After all, Uber was once a startup too. But you need to be careful: venture investors consciously take risks, so it’s not worth investing a full billion in one seemingly promising idea. Financiers recommend acting on the principle of “don’t keep your money in one basket,” that is, distributing investments, including into conservative investments (real estate, deposits, shares of large companies, etc.).

A million possibilities

According to state lottery statistics, over the 11 months of this year, the number of winning tickets from all state lotteries has already amounted to about 80 million. More than 830 people became lottery millionaires, who could contribute not only to the development of promising industries, but also become visionaries.

You can look forward to New Year's happiness in a relaxed atmosphere - the drawing will be broadcast on television as part of the holiday program. Thus, the New Year's "Ogonyok" can be extended for the whole family for the whole day. In such a situation, even if the winning ticket was given to someone (and many Russians buy them as a gift), there will be no bitterness. In the meantime, there is time to figure out where to spend a billion wisely.

How to spend a billion

At the end of 2017, TV screens encouraged people to participate in the New Year's lottery, where they could win a billion rubles. They promised that every second ticket would be a winner. True, the result of the unprecedented drawing was a lot of disappointed citizens and scandals at points of sale of lottery tickets. This whole story with the New Year's lottery gave us the idea to ask the residents of Zarechny what they would do if they really won a whole billion.

Alena ARKHIPOVA

For several days we asked the residents of our city the question: “What would you spend a billion rubles won in the lottery on?” All 143 people we contacted agreed to answer and dream about such unexpected happiness. The comments turned out to be different: entertaining, unexpected, sometimes funny or, conversely, aggressive. We combined all the answers into three groups.

We called the first group of interlocutors (25 people) “Skeptics” - they could not even imagine and did not want that they had a billion in their hands:

Who will run away and give me so much money just like that? - a 35-year-old man asked sarcastically.

What are you talking about? It is simply unrealistic to win that kind of money. I've been buying lottery tickets constantly for about twenty years now. Do you think I’ve ever won more than a thousand rubles? - The lady with the dog sighed doomedly.

Never in my life could I figure out how to manage so much money. “I would sit and look at my millions and wouldn’t know what to do with them,” the elderly woman said seriously.

Our brother, I mean the Russians, will never be allowed to win so much money. Why? Just imagine what some tractor driver Vasily from the village of Polovinnoye, Kurgan region, will do if he has a billion in his hands. He will either go crazy, or get drunk and waste all the money down the drain, or they will even kill him out of envy,” a man of retirement age painted a disappointing picture.

The second, largest group of survey participants (75 people) is “Practices”. These people immediately disposed of “their” money:

I would pay off the mortgage, a heavy stone around my neck. And then, maybe, I would also buy an apartment, and a house... by the ocean, so that I could fly there and relax every vacation on my personal plane,” the young girl smiled.

I would buy a cool car... Ah-ah-ah, I have a billion! Then the fleet would consist of exclusive car models, and would give rides to everyone for a pittance on holidays,” the man on the bicycle immediately blurted out.

The first thing I would do is quit my budget job - I don’t need to work with that kind of money anymore. And in addition, I would express to my boss - the tyrant - everything that I think about him - I would introduce him to a stern man of 45 years old.

I would buy housing for myself, my parents, my relatives... This is the main problem in our country,” the representative of the fair sex expressed her opinion.

Mortgage, apartment, European-quality renovation, new car, dacha - that goes without saying. There will still be money left. I would open my own business with them. New, well-developed production would add new jobs for those who do not work at the station. People would definitely get a good salary from me. And everyone would be happy,” the middle-aged woman dreamed usefully.

I would buy myself everything that I have never had and never will have, thought a young man of about 18.

I would solve the most pressing communal problems in Zarechny: finally repair Mira Street, develop a drinking water deposit after all, otherwise soon there will be nothing to flow from the tap. And I also replaced all communications, completely rusted pipes that are laid underground, so that there would be no more emergency water outages in the city,” said the practical man.

I would build a new, modern, equipped, and most importantly - free hospital in the city, an alternative to our MSCh-32. I would invite specialists there for good money... In general, I would do everything so that in our Zarechny there would be a normal, humane hospital with good conditions, accessible to the most vulnerable segments of the population, decided a woman of 25-30 years old.

Finally, we called the last group of 43 people “Altruists”:

“I would go on a trip around the world or climb Mount Everest,” said a young guy in his 20s.

“I would spend all the money on charity, what else should I spend it on,” a 56-year-old woman confidently said.

“I would use all my resources to create a cure for cancer that is effective and accessible to ordinary people,” the serious girl decided.

I would create the coolest charitable foundation to help children. I would help sick kids, on the eve of the holidays I would make the cherished dreams of children from low-income families come true, I would sponsor trips for gifted children to competitions, I would build some kind of rehabilitation center for disabled children, dreamed a boy of about 30 years old.

Indeed, children are our future, our everything. In general, I would pay for all the guys who are involved in sports and creativity for their activities,” added his charming companion.

I would revive my native village: housing, infrastructure, a village-forming enterprise, a leisure center - so that able-bodied residents in the village do not become drunk from idleness, so that young people return, - a 60-year-old woman spoke with a sigh about the painful situation.

“I would cure my disabled sister,” a girl of about 13 honestly admitted.

As you can see, the residents of Zarechny have good dreams. And the great thing is that the vast majority of residents would spend the money not only on themselves, but would also do a lot of good for others. Now, as they say, their words would be in God’s ears.

The question of how to spend a billion dollars is not faced by most Russians. The same applies to a million. However, knowledgeable people say that this task for a rich person is no less difficult than for a poor person - to calculate how to live on 1000 rubles until payday. Those who successfully cope with it gradually turn millions into billions, and then, with the greatest satisfaction (or indulgence), find their own name in prestigious rankings of the richest people in the world.

When counting other people's billions, international agencies are trying their best: dividing billionaires into Americans and non-Americans, young and not so young, people from the socialist camp and born Westerners, etc.

The American magazine Fortune, for example, proposed age and territorial classification simultaneously, publishing a ranking of the world's non-American billionaires under 40 years of age. The leader in it is the main Chukchi of Russia, Roman Abramovich, a lover of oil, fish and football, the most non-public of all domestic oligarchs.

The businessman's fortune, calculated by Fortune experts, is estimated at $8.3 billion - a figure that is enchanted for Russian billionaires. After all, a month ago, the Polish weekly Wprost estimated the fortune of YUKOS head M. Khodorkovsky at $8.3 billion. The wealth of Roman Abramovich by the Poles was estimated at $7.5 billion. Earning $0.8 billion in a month is cool. If this goes on, then Comrade N. Khrushchev’s dream of catching up and overtaking America, at least in terms of the level of well-being of our billionaires, will be realized already in the next five-year period.

Can Microsoft CEO Bill Gates with his $52.8 billion compare with our brave guys? He, a modest fellow, wears a watch for 200 bucks and drives a modest car, while ours are riding on yachts worth either 90 or 900 million greenbacks (the media are confused in the testimony).

True, the life of the Russian super-rich is extremely dangerous, competent sources say. Their competitors shoot them down, the state periodically threatens them with prison and creates conditions incompatible with life in their native land, the intelligence services track them down, the media discredit them, and the people are jealous, not wanting to stop drinking and start working, in the end...

But let’s return to the treasured figures, which clearly demonstrate the dynamics of capital growth of Russian Rockefellers. According to August data from the Polish weekly Wprost, in third place on the list after Khodorkovsky and Abramovich was the president of the Alfa Group consortium, Mikhail Fridman, with $6.7 billion. However, in September, American Fortune cut his fortune by almost three times, estimating it at $2. 4 billion!

In the 5th place of the August Wprost rating was the head of Interros Vladimir Potanin ($3.2 billion), in 6th place was Viktor Vekselberg (SUAL) with 3.1 billion, in 7th place was Mikhail Prokhorov (Nornickel) - from 2.3 billion, by 9 - Vladimir Bogdanov (Surgutneftegaz) from 1.9 billion, by 10 - Oleg Deripaska (Basic Element) - from 1.8 billion, by 14 - Vagit Alekperov (" LUKOIL") - 1.3 billion dollars.

Fortune in September provides other data: Prokhorov - 2.1 billion, Deripaska - 1.8 billion, Evgeny Shvidler (Sibneft) - 1.6 billion, Andrey Melnichenko (MDM) - 800 million, Alexey Mordashov ( "Severstal") - 240 million.

Summarizing the data of Wprost and Fortune experts, although this matter is not entirely correct, obvious inconsistencies are still worth noting, first of all, in relation to M. Friedman.

However, it is even more interesting to compare these data with January 2003 indicators. Then the list of the richest people on the planet was published by EuroBusiness. Mikhail Khodorkovsky's fortune was estimated by experts at $8 billion - a real modest fellow! In 8 months - increase 300 million compared to 800 million in one. In this regard, we have a suspicion that Roman Abramovich will not only overtake Mikhail Khodorkovsky in terms of wealth in the near future, but will also leave him far behind. And then, it’s just a stone’s throw from Chukotka to Alaska.

Another interesting comparison is with Fortune data from a year ago. In September 2002, the fortune of Mikhail Khodorkovsky was estimated at $7.2 billion, Roman Abramovich - at $4.2 billion (!), Mikhail Fridman - $2.1 billion, Oleg Deripaska - $1.5 billion, Andrei Melnichenko -$380 million

In August 2002, the French business magazine Nouvelle Economy was tempted by similar calculations. The list of the richest people on the planet he published exactly repeated the data from Forbes magazine from March 2002. At that time, Khodorkovsky’s fortune was estimated at $3.7 billion, Abramovich - at $3 billion, Friedman - $2.2 billion, Potanin - $1.8 billion, Bogdanov - $1.6 billion, Alekperov - $1.4 billion, Deripaska - $1.1 billion.

Although experts have different approaches to determining the amount of capital of these individuals - some evaluate the assets they own, and others use confidential information, the picture of the dynamics of the development of the situation over the past two years in this area is generally clear. Roman Abramovich is increasing his wealth at a gigantic pace, the growth rate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s capital has decreased significantly compared to last year (in connection with or regardless of the actions of the Prosecutor General’s Office, experts do not specify), the picture of Mikhail Fridman’s well-being is very unclear.

Among the young financial sprinters, it is worth noting M. Prokhorov, who was absent from last year’s rankings, and A. Melnichenko, who almost tripled his wealth over the year.

In conclusion, here is the opinion of the head of the economic section of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Dmitry Lvov: 85% of the population of the Russian Federation accounts for only 7% of the country’s national wealth. 85% of the national wealth is concentrated in the hands of the remaining 15%. There is no doubt that all of the above-mentioned citizens of the world are included in this 15%.

How to spend a billion? You will need a list of the most expensive things. A billion is such a sum of money that if you simply buy everything you’ve ever dreamed of, you’ll find that it’s just been lying there, unkissed, and is only growing with interest.

And rest assured, there is something interesting on the market that will help solve this difficult problem in 10 moves.

10 most expensive things in its class

10. Omelette, £90

Black-headed gull eggs cost £5 each. They can be collected by licensed businesses several weeks a year. The omelettes they make at London's Boisdale restaurant also include Scottish lobster, crab, Italian truffles and English asparagus.

90 pounds is not very expensive. But if you eat such omelettes all your life, for example, for 80 years every month, then you get about 90,000 pounds. If you eat them weekly, then the expense is already under 350,000, and if daily, then on omelettes alone we gain a substantial amount of two and a half million pounds sterling. A completely different conversation.

9. Bird feather, $5500

Huya bird feather. The bird is extinct. The feather is brown with a white tip.

No one will be shocked by its beauty, but there are few of them.

8. Headphones, $55,000

Sennheiser HE1060/HEV1060 Orpheus headphones. There are no diamonds, not even Swarovski crystals, but it’s expensive. Amplifier included.

They say they are the best headphones in the history of mankind.

7. Chess, $600,000

These chess pieces cannot be played - players will find it difficult to concentrate equally when looking at the 320 carats of black and white diamonds that are encrusted with the pieces.

Seven people in the world have this chess set by jeweler Charles Hollander from a special set of trinkets for billionaires.

6. Toy car, £2,000,000

Model of the Bugatti Veyron Diamond by jeweler Stuart Hughes from London and modeler Robert Gulpen from Munich. A little more than 25 centimeters in length. Made of gold, platinum and diamonds. This toy car has everything like a real one - a fully functional steering wheel, and an engine with all its parts.

The model is twice as expensive as the car that served as its prototype.

5. Mobile phone, $2,970,000

iPhone 3GS Supreme Rose by the same cheerful Stuart Hughes. You can plug in the Sennheiser HE1060/HEV1060 Orpheus headphones from point No. 8 and listen to Potap and Nastya’s song “Everything in a Bunch.”

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It will be a shame when the most expensive phone jumps out of your pocket at the most inopportune moment and, ruining the song, drowns in the toilet.

4. Wristwatch, $25,000,000

Time is money. Previous purchases didn’t help much, the money in my accounts is growing by leaps and bounds, and I haven’t had any expenses for a minute now.

A Chopard watch catches my eye. A gift of fate! 201 carats of diamonds, the most expensive watch in the world.

3. Domain name, $35,600,000

The most expensive domain name is insurance.com. The picture is a banner from the main page of a site located on this domain. Yes, just a regular cute photo. What should be there?

The site is smart. Without a website, of course, you won’t get any pleasure, but in a pinch it will do. If there is a fire, for example, or a flood. Owned by QuinStreet. And if you need information support for your business, then go to Vorontsov’s digital workshop.

2. Painting, £250,000,000

A painting by the world's leading abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock.

No, the builders did not accidentally stain the canvas, but the greatest, if in monetary terms, work of art.

1. House, £390,000,000

The villa on the Mediterranean coast was built for the Belgian King Leopold II. Large territory, 20 hectares of garden. This is not the most expensive house in the world. The most expensive house cost 200 tons of gold and platinum, and the floor is lined with Tyrannosaurus rex bones. It is worth more than 12 billion dollars. And after purchasing the villa of Leopold II, the second most expensive, we no longer have anything.

"How so? - you ask. “After all, from a billion there are still 120,000,000 dollars left!” Do you remember how you always washed down the black-headed gull egg omelet with Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande Champagne?

$2,000,000 bottle. Made by purebred Bourbons, 100 years aged. A bottle of 4 kilograms of gold plus another 4 kilograms of platinum, crystal and 6,500 diamonds.

So, sorry, the billion is over. It's time to hand over the bottles.