Mikhail Dmitrievich Prokhorov

Mikhail Prokhorov (2013)

Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Prokhorov ( Russian Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров ; born May 3, 1965 in Moscow ) is a Russian entrepreneur , former director of the Russian companies Norilsk Nickel and OJSC Polyus Gold and a politician .

Companies

The business magazine Forbes estimated his fortune in 2009 at 9.5 billion US dollars. This made him the richest Russian and placed 40th in the global ranking of billionaires. Prokhorov was the third richest Russian in 2011 with a fortune of $ 18.5 billion. He invested in companies in the raw materials and energy sectors and in the 2000s pursued an international expansion strategy that also included German companies.

Since September 2009 Prokhorov has the largest share in the NBA club Brooklyn Nets .

politics

Presidency of Right Cause

From June 25, 2011 to September 15, 2011 Prokhorov was chairman of the Right Cause Party . He resigned from this before the 2011 parliamentary elections because, in his opinion, it was a “Kremlin puppet project”.

Presidential candidacy

Mikhail Prokhorov announced on December 12, 2011 that he would run for the presidential election on March 4, 2012 .

In the election Prokhorov got 7.98 percent of the vote. He emerged as the third strongest candidate behind election winner Vladimir Putin and the communist Gennady Zyuganov .

Foundation of the citizens' platform

After Prokhorov was defeated in the presidential election, he pursued the establishment of his own party, the Graschdanskaja platforma ( Гражданская платформа ), in German civil platform . So that the party has the same name as the Polish Civic Platform of Donald Tusk .

The party, initially consisting of 500 members, will concentrate on the Russian local elections in autumn, Prokhorov said on June 4, 2012 in Moscow. The party is ready to work with all other parties, including the ruling party, and is following a liberal, secular path. In the local elections in Russia in 2013, the candidate Yevgeny Roisman , supported by the Civic Platform, managed to win the mayoral election in Yekaterinburg .

His sister Irina Prokhorova took over the management of the Civic Platform in the spring of 2014, but only until July 2014, when she could no longer identify with the regional groupings that supported the annexation of Crimea. From then on they were ordinary members, while the party increasingly supported the course of the Russian government in foreign policy.

In March 2015 Prokhorov resigned from the Civic Platform after the head of the political committee, Rifat Shaychutdinov, had called for the Civic Platform to take part in the large-scale event "Antimaidan" in Moscow staged by the Kremlin. He then withdrew from the public eye; In July 2016 it became known that Prokhorov is apparently planning to sell all of its stakes in Russian companies. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported that these considerations may be due to political pressure. The same reason circulated during the sale of his shares in the media company RBK . In the meantime he had also sold shares in Uralkali and the aluminum producer UC Rusal .

In January 2017, the United States government published a list of confidants of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which included Prokhorov.

Private

Mikhail Prokhorov is unmarried. In 2007 he was arrested with several other guests in the French ski resort Courchevel during a prostitution raid.

From 2008 to 2014 he was the successor to Alexander Tichonow President of the Russian Biathlon Association. During his term of office, the state doping investigated by the McLaren Report for the 2014 Winter Olympics falls .

Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation

In 2004 he founded the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation , which is based in Krasnoyarsk ( Siberia ) and is headed by Prokhorov's sister Irina Dmitrijewna Prokhorova , a literary scholar and publisher, who is nine years older than him . The foundation supports both the national orchestra of Mikhail Pletnjow and village libraries in Siberia.

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Prokhorov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Reinhard Veser : The critical oligarch. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 5, 2012.
• The man who cared too little: How Mikhail Prokhorov tried (and failed) to reshape Russian politics and media. In: Meduza , May 20, 2016 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bisnesmen Michail Prokhorov pokinul "Poljus soloto" , accessed January 25, 2012.
2. ↑ The World's Billionaires 2009. In: Forbes , October 2009 (English).
3. ↑ Elke Windisch : Putin's enigmatic rival Prokhorov. In: Kurier.at , December 13, 2011.
4. ↑ The richest Russian wants to forge raw material giants. In: Spiegel Online , July 12, 2009.
5. ↑ Na sdarowje, New Jersey. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on October 13, 2009. 
6. ^ Russian parliamentary elections 2011: Eligible parties. In: Heinrich Böll Foundation , October 26, 2011.
7. ^ Richard Sakwa : Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia. Routledge, London, New York 2014, p. 99.
8. ↑ Reinhard Veser : Michail Prokhorov: Opposing candidate with Putin's blessing. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 14, 2011.
9. ↑ Russian billionaire becomes active: Prokhorov founds party. In: n-tv , June 4, 2012.
10. ↑ Prokhorov aims high with his platform party. In: Russia News , October 29, 2012.
11. ^ Claudia Crawford, Johann C. Fuhrmann: A bit of opposition: Regional elections in Russia. In: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Country Report Russia, September 10, 2013.
12. ↑ Setback for the Russian opposition  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , RBTH, July 25, 2014  
13. ^ André Ballin: Russia's Civic Platform in Uniform. In: Der Standard , October 10, 2014.
14. ↑ Prokhorov leaves the citizens' platform. In: German-Russian Business News , March 13, 2015.
15. ↑ Daniel Wechlin: Sale at Mikhail Prokhorov? The silent Russian magnate. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 5, 2016.
16. ↑ NZZ, May 27, page 30
17. ^ Donald Trump: USA publishes list of Putin's contacts.
18. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ↑ Interview FAZ of July 17, 2010, page Z 6