{"id":742,"date":"2023-09-14T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statewatch.org.ua\/oligarchs\/petr-aven\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:32:01","slug":"petr-aven","status":"publish","type":"oligarchs","link":"https:\/\/statewatch.org.ua\/en\/oligarchs\/petr-aven\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Aven"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A shareholder of the conglomerate Alpha-Group, which includes Alpha Bank, and co-owner of the holding LetterOne. In the 90<sup>th<\/sup>, prior to new presidential elections in Russia, he, together with other oligarchs, financed Boris Yeltsen and, therefore, got influence on the authorities. Maria, a daughter of Vladimir Putin, ran a charitable project Alpha-Endo financed by Alpha Bank.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is number 30 on the Russian Forbes 2021 list.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alpha Bank credits state-owned military factories. Together with his partner Mikhail Fridman he challenged Western sanctions introduced against them in courts.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"featured_media":601,"template":"","class_list":["post-742","oligarchs","type-oligarchs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Petr Aven | StateWatch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/statewatch.org.ua\/en\/oligarchs\/petr-aven\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Petr Aven | StateWatch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A shareholder of the conglomerate Alpha-Group, which includes Alpha Bank, and co-owner of the holding LetterOne. 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