Although he was born an orphan, he became one of the seven oligarchs of Russia with his keen prudence. When Putin struck hard and imposed sanctions on the Russian oligarchs, he was the only one who won Putin's trust and became the richest man in both countries.
He is Abramovich, from an orphan to a country oligarch, what kind of unknown experience does he have? Why was he able to avoid Putin's sanctions and climb to the top of his wealth?
Abramovich
Born from a miserable background, the history of the attack of orphans on the rich
Abramović, full name Roman Abramovich, unlike several other Russian oligarchs, Abu was not from a famous family, and it just so happened that his childhood life can be said to be a "mixture" of various tragedies.
Abu was born on October 24, 1966, to a poor family in Saratov on the Volga River in the Soviet Union. His father was Jewish and his mother was of both Ukrainian and Jewish descent.
The poverty of the family is already a shackle, but the calamity given by God does not seem to stop. When Abu was one year old, his mother died on the operating table due to a medical accident; at the age of three, Abu's father was killed in a sudden construction site accident, and the little Abu became a homeless orphan.
At a young age, he suffered the pain of losing his parents, and ordinary people could not bear it, let alone a child who did not understand and ignorance. Fortunately, Abu did not end up begging along the street, and his kind uncle adopted him and raised Abu to adulthood.
The uncle who adopted Abu was relatively well-off, and he was one of the main leaders of the Ucht oil plant, an important oil powerhouse in the Soviet Union at that time. The days under the fence are not free, and Abu also saw this early, so he developed a precocious personality of understanding and well-behaved.
Abu knows that if he wants to survive smoothly and steadily, he must learn to play around and learn to act in the colors of others. Based on this knowledge, Abu has shown a high emotional intelligence beyond his peers since he was a child, and his uncle loves him very much and takes care of Abu as if he were his own child.
With the support of his uncle, Abu's studies were not abandoned, but he went all the way to middle school. After graduating from middle school, Abu did not choose to continue his studies, but resolutely chose to enroll in the army and enter the army.
However, after only two years in the army, Abu was faced with a very realistic choice. Continuing to complete military service in the military may be successful in the future, but the process is too long and costly and energy-consuming.
But that's exactly where the problem is that Abu doesn't have the support of other comrades in the army, and there are no reliable connections around him. Abu does not have strong capital, and if he wants to gamble on this road, the odds of winning are obviously almost slim. After much thought, Abu finally chose to retire from the army and returned to his hometown to set up a small stall on the side of the road to sell some small goods.
Abu's decision turned out to be the right one, because in 1987, an opportunity came for him to turn himself around. That year, the Soviet Union vigorously introduced economic reforms at home, and the government approved the creation of its own private enterprises.
The introduction of this initiative is simply that ordinary people no longer have to continue to be employed by public enterprises, but have the same right to become rich as those entrepreneurs. Such a great opportunity, good at seeing the timing of Abu certainly will not be easily missed. He took out years of savings and used the money to start a company specializing in plastic toys.
With a clever and sensitive mind, Abu soon made a name for himself in the new field of business, and within a few years, his company's business had expanded from the original toy manufacturing industry to multiple fields such as cross-oil refining, fragrant pigs, and bodyguard recruitment.
At the same time as the small achievements in his career, Abu also ushered in his other half, and he was also a rich family with extraordinary origins. Subsequently, with the support of the old man, Abu began to secretly smuggle brand-name perfumes and cigarettes, and after several years of hard work, he earned a lot of money and counted the money to the point of being soft.
But even though he has been successful in both career and marriage, Abu still does not choose to settle for the status quo, but quietly sets a grander "goal" in his heart. Abu set his sights on a higher position than the rich, that is, to become an "oligarch" in Russia.
Becoming an oligarch he rose to the top
Becoming an oligarch in Russia is not an easy task, and although Abu has accumulated a lot of connections and wealth through these years of wandering, his ambitions clearly tell him that these are far from enough to achieve his goals.
In order to ascend to the position of "oligarch" as soon as possible, Abu began to receive some gray transactions behind his back. In 1992, Abu used his connections to forge a government document to procure 5,000 tons of diesel from the Uhta refinery.
But strangely, in the subsequent transportation process, the diesel fuel worth nearly 4 million rubles suddenly and mysteriously "disappeared". After an investigation by the Ministry of the Interior, it was learned that the oil was lost because it had been stolen by the employees of the joint refinery behind Abu's back.
Some people may wonder at this time, although Abu has a small amount of savings, he is not able to avoid prison. You know, at that time, this was a felony involving the embezzlement of state property, and once it was found, the consequences would inevitably be a dead end, so how did he escape?
In fact, all this is also "attributed" to Abu's previous contacts in the army. Abu naturally knew that sooner or later the upper echelons would find out about his head, so soon after the incident, he used his connections to make the matter a big deal and a small matter, and finally it was not resolved.
Berezovsky and Abramovich
Oil doubled Abu's value again than before, and Abu also used it to squeeze into high society, but Abu understood that this was not enough to make himself completely established. So shortly after that, he reached a cooperation with the "Godfather of the Kremlin" and the Russian oligarch Berezovsky to jointly fund the establishment of an offshore company with multiple subsidiaries.
As power and capital expanded, Abu's ambitions grew, and he and Berezovsky each bought half of the Siberian Oil Company for $100 million. In the Soviet Union at the time, the market valuation of the Siberian Oil Company was about $2.7 billion. Abu effortlessly made nearly $1 billion.
Why did Yeltsin's walking version of the "ATM" finally escape Putin's sanctions?
Berezovsky was not the only one around Abu, because shortly after this, Russian founding president Boris Yeltsin became Abu's new "big brother".
Since Yeltsin came to power and took charge of Russian politics, as long as Yeltsin is short of money, there is no need to wait for Yeltsin to open his mouth, and the Abu Bao Pu Will be the first to send charcoal to his "big brother" and help Yeltsin fill in various holes. Even if Yeltsin encountered great difficulties, as long as Abu was willing, Yeltsin greeted him, and he was absolutely on call.
It was precisely based on Abu's attitude of extreme loyalty to Yeltsin that the Russian people at that time had circulated such a saying, do not provoke Abu, Abu is President Yeltsin's walking "ATM machine", provoking him is that he is unable to live with the president.
Yeltsin
The story progresses to this point, it seems that Abu's life is still in a state of "full opening and hanging", with Yeltsin as the "big brother" to support, and there is still an oligarchic brother who is rich and invincible, Abu can completely enjoy his success and no longer have to worry about the future.
But life is not always smooth, even for Abu. In 2000, Putin won that year's presidential race and was sworn in as the new President of Russia. Soon after taking office, Putin targeted the primary target of repression, the Russian oligarchs.
Putin
The Russian oligarchs may not have dreamed that they had been rampant for half a lifetime, and they thought that they could sit back and relax in the second half of their lives, who knew that they would kill a "hardcore" president to rule them halfway. In the face of Putin's thunderous sanctions, the seven oligarchs should run away, those who can't run are exiled abroad, or they are invited to prison and lonely.
So the question is, as one of the seven oligarchs of Russia, Abu should obviously be among the sanctions, but why can he finally escape and win Putin's trust?
As mentioned earlier, Abu has always been a person with a high emotional intelligence, because he knows very little about Putin, the new president, and really does not know much, so when Putin issued an order to sanction the seven oligarchs, he did not choose to make trouble like other oligarchs.
When Abu's former "brother" Berezovsky was still fighting a "war of words" with Putin on television, saying that "as long as he wants, monkeys can become presidents", Abu chose to protect himself and took the initiative to become the governor of a state in a remote area behind the back of everyone.
Abu's decision was very wise, because Abu knew that he did not actually understand politics, and the best way to avoid implicating himself and becoming a "thorn in Putin's eyes" was to stay away from Moscow's political core.
In this way, it can not only preserve his reputation and assets, but also create a sincere and cautious image of Putin as a "loyal subject". After Putin believes that Abu and he are the same person, Abu is naturally safe.
Of course, Abu chose to become governor not simply to avoid the limelight, and he also did a lot of measures to benefit the people's livelihood during his tenure. For example, Abu has set aside $200 million to specifically improve local infrastructure, which has greatly accelerated the local economy and allowed people to live a better life.
In addition, in terms of the president's disciplinary measures against oligarchs, Abu has also shown his loyalty to Putin with practical actions. He took the initiative to cooperate with Putin and "nationalized" the enterprises under the oligarchy. In the long run, the people of Abu's current state have loved him, and Putin's hostility towards him has gradually been offset by trust.
However, as the old saying goes, "Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years", even if you have reached such a watertight level, the cautious Abu is still not very at ease, and he sells his shares in the company registered in the Uk in batches through his network of connections to avoid further troubles.
After all this was done, Abu spent a lot of money and spent 130 million pounds to buy the dying British team Chelsea. In just a few years, Abu not only helped chelsea team pay off all its debts, but even single-handedly built it into a world-famous ace team.
Football is a popular sport with a wide audience, and the various football events held every year can attract the attention of countless fans around the world. Now that Abu has brought such a good team to Russia, it is a good thing for both the country and the people. Putin will not choose to target him again because he is an oligarch.
Moreover, there are also many Chelsea fans in Russia, if they insist on doing something to Abu, will it not hurt the hearts of those fans or the Russian people?
In 2018, Abu officially obtained Israeli citizenship and became a "dual nationality" rich man in Israel and Russia. Today, Abu has completely distanced himself from Russian political circles and started a new life in Israel.
What does the future hold for Abu? Outsiders still don't know, maybe time will give us the most correct answer in the near future!