Forbes reported on February 8 that billionaire Vasily Anisimov had renounced his Russian citizenship, becoming the seventh tycoon to do so since Moscow launched its ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. According to documents obtained by the business magazine, Anisimov renounced his Russian citizenship in September 2022. He still holds passports from Croatia and the Dominican Republic. Other tycoons who have given up their Russian citizenship since February 2022 include Timur Turlov, Ruben Vardanyan, Yury Milner, Nikolai Storonsky, Oleg Tinkov, and Igor Makarov. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.
Another Russian Billionaire Renounces Citizenship
Russian billionaire Vasily Anisimov (left) with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2019.