Donetsk Republic government



Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov (born on 21 September 1966) is a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch. He is the founder and President of System Capital Management (SCM), and is ranked among the wealthiest men in Ukraine. As of February 2015, he was listed as the 216th richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of US 6.5 billion. There have been claims Akhmetov has been involved in organized crime. Akhmetov is also the owner and President of the Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk. In 2006–2007 and 2007–2012 Akhmetov was a member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for the Party of Regions. Akhmetov also made numerous statements, since March 2014, appealing for integrity of Ukraine and finding peaceful solutions of the crisis.

Ukraine's wealthiest man for eight years running, Rinat Akhmetov owns three-quarters of Metinvest Group, Ukraine's largest private company, which reported rising profits as iron ore and metals markets improved. His real estate arm opened a high-end mall in late 2016. He's been president of soccer club FC Shakhtar Donetsk since 1996 during privatization in the 1990s. Today these form the basis of his SCM holding company.
 

Igor Strelkov: "Actualy, it was me who triggered the war"

Society24.11.2014

Former Minister of the Donetsk Republic thinks that modern politics is all lie and hopes to die an honest man.