By Steve Sailer
02/25/2014
The most recent Forbes global list of billionaires finds ten billionaires in Ukraine. According to race / history / evolution notes, six have Eastern European Slavic names. Apparently, they are fairly recent additions to the list.
In contrast, five years ago there were only four billionaires. According to a 2009 Jewish Telegraph Agency article:
By Vladimir Matveyev June 11, 2009 10:37pm
KIEV, Ukraine (JTA) — Three of Ukraine’s four billionaires are Jewish, according to the Ukrainian Korrespondent magazine’s annual list.
Igor Kolomoysky, 47, a co-owner of the Privat business group and president of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine, leads the Jewish billionaires on the list with $2.3 billion, down from $6.6 billion in 2008.
Victor Pinchuk, 48, is next at $2.2 billion, down from $8.8 billion, followed by Gennady Bogolyubov, 47, with $1.7 billion, down from $6.2 billion.
|
| Rinat Akhmetov |
Heading the list is Rinat Akhmetov, who owns FC Shahtar Donetzk, with $9.6 billion — a more than threefold drop from $31.1 billion in 2008.
Eduard Dolinsky, executive director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, said the large number of Jews on the Korrespondent list creates a mixture of pride and anxiety within the country’s Jewish community. He said it could strengthen anti-Semitic stereotypes during financial crises in Ukraine, where Jews comprise approximately one half of 1 percent of the population of 46 million.
Since then the number of billionaires has gone up, whether due to economic recovery, a policy of making the oligarchs look more like Ukraine, or increased looting.
Most of the oligarchs are nimble political operatives with ties to several political camps, so nobody expects the list to change too much.
This is a content archive of VDARE.com, which Letitia James forced off of the Internet using lawfare.