Vitaly Borisovich Malkin

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Vitaly Malkin

Vitaly Borisovich Malkin ( Russian Виталий Борисович Малкин ; born September 16, 1952 in Pervouralsk , Soviet Union ) is a Russian - Israeli businessman and politician . He used to work as a physicist , banker and senator. Today he is known for his humanitarian involvement as patron of the Era Foundation (in Russia) and the Fondation Espoir (a program with the Luxembourg Foundation and UNICEF- Luxembourg). Witali Malkin is married and has six children.

Malkin was a confidante of Boris Yeltsin and part of the Semibank Church China group, consisting of nine personalities from the financial world, who supported the outgoing president's re-election campaign in 1996.

biography

Malkin grew up in a Ukrainian - Jewish family. His father Malkin Boris Samoylovich was the deputy director of Chelyabinsk Pipe, and his mother Pyatigorskaya Marianna Davydovna was a doctor. He attended a high school for mathematics and physics in Chelyabinsk .

education

In 1969 he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Technology at the Urals State Technical University . During his studies he attended lectures on art and painting in addition to the regular curriculum. Malkin graduated with honors in 1975 and continued his academic career with a doctorate in physics from Moscow State University of Transportation (MIIT), where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the metrology of laser radiation .

After defending his PhD in 1978, he continued his work at MIIT in the Holographic Methods Laboratory. He was in charge of quality control and Vice-President of the Young Scientists Council. From 1983 to 1989 he taught physics at the State University of Moscow .

In 1983 he defended a dissertation on the subject of ultra-sensitive recording elements and received the academic degree "Doctor of Technology" for it. Until 1989 worked at the Research Institute for Holographic Processes at MIIT as a junior researcher and later as head of the laboratory.

Entrepreneurial activity

In 1982, Malkin Bidzina (Boris) met Ivanishvili . In the late 1980s, the two friends founded a microcomputer import company. Continuing their entrepreneurial projects in 1990, Malkin and Ivanishvili bought the Agroprogress cooperative . This company had previously invested in Naro-Fominsk greenhouses. Malkin and Ivanishvili made their first million dollars selling phones and video recorders.

Rossiiski credit

In the summer of 1990 the partners of the “Agroprogress” registered the bank “Rossiiski Kredit”. Six months later, the bank received approval to conduct foreign currency transactions and began its retail business with customers. Malkin was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors (1991-1994). He became president of the bank in 1994 and held that position until 2000. From 1990 to 2003, Malkin was chairman of the board.

The bank was given the right to long-term rent of the luxurious Morosov villa on Smolensky Boulevard in Moscow. Initially, the Supreme Soviet wanted to set up its headquarters in the Morozov villa, but could not find enough money to restore this architectural monument. The "Rossiiski Kredit" bank therefore financed the renovation of the manor house. From 1993 to 1996, the partners invested $ 6 million in restoring the building and developing the new offices.

When the so-called Semibank Church China (a group of nine Russian oligarchs who played an important role in the political and economic life of Russia) was formed on the eve of the 1996 presidential election, Malkin became a supporter of President Yeltsin. Malkin met with Boris Yeltsin , while his partner Ivanishvili preferred to stay in the background. In May 1996, Malkin signed a declaration of support for Boris Yeltsin's re-election in his second term on behalf of the Coordinating Council of the Round Table of Russian Business.

The "Rossiiski Kredit" suffered from the crisis of 1998, but survived. In 1998, Boris Ivanishvili and his partner Malkin joined Impeksbank, which became the bank relay to organize payments.

In 1999, Rossiiski Kredit Bank was the first commercial bank to reimburse its deposit customers - those who asked for it - all in rubles and part of the money deposited in foreign currency funds. The "Rossiiski Kredit" owed its customers almost 80 million dollars. “Rossiiski Kredit” is the only commercial bank that has fully recapitalized its debts and repaid all the money to the individual depositors. “The restructuring of 'Rossiiski Kredit' is the only case in the world in which a private company has honored its debt due to a government error,” remarked Ivanishvili in one of his interviews.

The bank was restructured in 2003 and all creditors were honored. To meet all of their commitments, Malkin and Ivanishvili raised nearly $ 200 million in equity. At the beginning of 2006, the Austrian Raiffeisen Group bought Impeksbank for 550 million US dollars and connected it to Raiffeisenbank.

In 2005, after the separation of the assets, Malkin received the minority stake (28.74%) from the East Siberian Petroleum Company (VSNK), the main owner of which was the Russian group Youkos (70.78%). In July 2007, Rosneft bought Youkos shares in VSNK and valued the entire company at 1.26 billion rubles (almost $ 50 million ). In 2011, Rosneft bought Malkins shares .

Social and Political Activities

Malkin was one of the Russian businessmen who founded the Russian Jewish Congress in 1996. The organization was set up as a non-profit foundation with the aim of financing the activities of the Jewish community and combating anti-Semitism . Malkin was one of the founders of the association and one of the organizers of the constituent assembly who approved the organization's statutes and program declaration in 1996. The assembly elected Malkin as vice president of the Jewish Congress of Russia. Malkin was a member of the Presidium until 2008.

On January 1, 2004, Malkin was elected Senator of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Buryatia . His mandate was renewed on September 19, 2007 and May 18, 2012.

In the Council of the Federation, Malkin worked in the Commission on Natural Monopolies (January - June 2004), the Committee on Industrial Policy (2004–2007), the Commission for Monitoring the Operation of the Council (2004–2007), the Committee on International Affairs (since 2007), the Commission for Youth and Tourism (2004–2007), the Commission for Cooperation with the Court of Auditors of the Russian Federation (2007–2011) and the Commission for Sport and Olympic Development (2008–2011). From 2010 until his resignation, Malkin remained Vice President of the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee.

Malkin actively advocates the drafting and adoption of laws regulating interethnic relations in the Russian Federation. After the murder of Bair Sambuev in 2009, for which racial hatred is a clear motive, Malkin sent letters to the then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev , to Vladimir Putin , the then head of government as well as to the attorney general and the interior minister and asked them about their resistance the inter-ethnic discord. In his letter, Malkin suggested drafting and urgently passing a federal law to improve interethnic relations. As Vitaly Malkin noted, the fight against neo-Nazi demonstrations was not carried out properly, which escalated violence and increased interethnic discord and undermined the very foundations of the Russian state.

Charitable activities

Malkin is involved in charity and donates a significant portion of his wealth to social projects.

The Era Foundation

In 2004 Malkin founded the charity "Era". The foundation is located in Buryatia and works in parallel on several missions: helping children, supporting the Buryat national culture, supporting the Buryat community, helping the elderly, "helping veterans, culture and sport, cultural development, education and science".

The Era Foundation has also developed a program that supports war veterans in Chechnya , awards numerous scholarships to high-performing students and supports a large number of orphans in need. In addition, the Era Foundation supported the restoration of the National Library of Buryatia.

Fondation Espoir - The Foundation of Hope

During a trip to Egypt , Malkin became aware of the practice of female genital mutilation . The fact that in some parts of Africa 98% of the female population is circumcised affected him. So he decided to set up a foundation that would actively fight against this problem. In order to give this foundation an effective international impact, Malkin asked UNICEF and the Luxembourg [null foundation] for a special program that would be able to train doctors to set up operations for the prevention and treatment of maimed girls.

The first phase of the Espoir Foundation's program lasted five years and had a budget of 5 million euros, which was financed entirely by Malkin. In three years, more than 2,200 girls have been treated, doctors have been trained and important education and prevention campaigns have achieved initial successes in the two regions of Ethiopia most affected by this practice . UNICEF announced that more than 20,000 people, including 2,243 religious leaders, were trained in female genital mutilation prevention.

Israeli citizenship scandal

After the oppositionist Alexei Navalny made public that Malkin is also an Israeli citizen and that he had not disclosed assets abroad, Malkin resigned from the Federation Council in 2013. He is believed to own a condominium in the Time Warner Center in Manhattan , which was sold to him in 2010 for approximately $ 15.65 million.

book

  • Illusions dangereuses: Quand les religions nous privent de bonheur . Hermann, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

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  4. ^ THE EXILE - No-ligarchy: The Tragicomic Collapse of Russia's Former Masters - By Mark Ames - Feature Story. Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
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  6. ^ THE EXILE - The Jews: Where Are They Now? - Feature story. Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Asher Schechter: Just Don't Call Them Gaydamak: Meet Israel's Russian Oligarchs. In: Haaretz.com. July 2, 2013, accessed July 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Создание сайта IP3 - www.ip3.ru: Российский еврейский конгресс :: Главная страница. Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
  9. ^ Frank, Ben G .: A travel guide to Jewish Russia & Ukraine . Pelican Pub. Co, Gretna, La. 2000, ISBN 1-56554-355-6 .
  10. ↑ Russia senator quits over Israel citizenship scandal . In: Ynetnews . March 27, 2013 ( ynetnews.com [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Russian businessman's 20-year bid to enter Canada spawned top secret spy agency probes, but never citizenship . In: National Post . March 6, 2013 ( nationalpost.com [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Благотворительный Фонд «Эра». Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
  13. ^ Avec la Fondation Espoir contre la mutilation génitale féminine en Ethiopie . In: UNICEF Lëtzebuerg . ( unicef.lu [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  14. ^ Fondation Espoir supports victims of female genital mutilation . Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  15. ^ Louise Story, Stephanie Saul: Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate . In: The New York Times . February 7, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Malkin, Vitaly Borisovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Малкин, Виталий Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Pervouralsk