History of Vladimir Potanin

Vladimir Potanin

Vladimir Potanin Olegovich (born January 3, 1961) is a Russian businessman and oligarch. Your partner has been for many years Mikhail Prokhorov. He acquired his wealth through the particular loan program in Russia controversial actions.

Potanin was born in Moscow in the former USSR, a senior Communist family.


In 1978, Potanin attended the faculty of international economic relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), an elite school that prepared students for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


MGIMO After graduating in 1983, followed in the footsteps of his father and went to work for foreign terrorist organization "Soyuzpromexport" with the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union.


Potanin has been prime minister of Russia's economy as well as George Soros partner in the telecom monopoly Svyazinvest.