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  <DIV class="style15">THE personal armada of Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, is poised to get a stunning new flagship: the largest privately owned yacht in the world.
  <p>The Eclipse, currently taking shape in a shipyardMOST folk get a card and a bottle of bubbly from their boss when they tie Cutting through the ice-crystal air, a warning bell tolls and the drillmaster hollers, his body swaddled in wool, fleece and fur to protect him from temperatures that have slumped to minus 40C. "Re-engage," he shouts into the dead calm of the frozen Siberian tundra as five members of the oil rig crew, wrestling with grappling hooks, attempt to steady a 50m-long pipe that thrashes above our heads. "Keep that steady," the drillmaster bellows, as his men are dragged across the platform by the writhing pipe, their heavy felt boots losing grip on the frozen steel of the burovaya, or screw-drill oil rig. There are 180 hours of labour ahead before these workers return home to Belarus, a three-day journey south-west. "Concentrate." One momentary lapse and we could all be crushed by the hundreds of tons of steel suspended above us. Even if we could ring for help, how long would it take to reach us on the edge of nowhere, 600 miles south of the Arctic Circle, in what Maxim Gorky called "the land of chains and ice"? Finally, the bucking pipe is gripped by the mechanical jaws of a massive clamp. Steel teeth engage, screeching and sparking, screwing the pipe into another that connects, segment by segment, two miles into the earth, down to the hardened bite of a screw drill that is grinding and sucking away at vast subterranean reserves of crude, black Siberian oil. Three thousand miles and five time zones away, in the directors' box at Stamford Bridge, south-west London, a photographer snaps a group of young businessmen in a moment of jubilation as Chelsea score. On the right of the frame is Eugene Shvidler, the president of Sibneft, the Russian oil company that owns the burovaya in western Siberia and 9,999 more oil rigs like it. Shvidler, his arms thrown up in joy, is now a board member of Chelsea Village, thanks to an old friend standing to the left, punching a fist in the air. Britain's richest man, Roman Abramovich, aged 37, last year famously bought and restocked Chelsea for £250m; coins in his pockets compared with the dividends paid him by Sibneft, Russia's fastest growing energy company, of which he and Shvidler are core shareholders. Cheering beside them are other senior Sibneft executives, Chelsea Village board members and representatives of Millhouse Capital, a publicity-shy company registered in Weybridge, Surrey, that marshals Abramovich and his partners' interests in some of Russia's most valuable former state enterprises. On the formation of Millhouse Capital in 2001, Abramovich's lucrative Sibneft assets sat beside his stakes in Russia's national airline Aeroflot (26%), the world's number two aluminium producer RusAl (50%), Russia's second largest automaker GAZ, the Orsk-Khalilovsky Metal Combine, Avtobank, insurance giant Ingosstrakh, a hydroelectric plant in Kraznoyarsk and the Ust Ilinsky pulp and paper plant. It is these investments, among others, that have made Abramovich the 22nd richest man in the world, worth an estimated £7.5bn, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. (As an aid to visualising the scale of this fortune, it is worth noting that in March banking giant HSBC reported its annual pre-tax profit to be £7.8bn, thereby smashing all previous British records.) No wonder the men photographed at the Chelsea match are cheering: Russian lads, from humdrum Soviet backgrounds, millionaires many times over by their mid-30s, now standing in the directors' box, in a stadium they own, watching their team charging up the English Premier League - and all because of the breakneck race in the 1990s to create a western-style democracy and free market for Russia. From the moment in July 2003 when news broke that a man almost unknown in Britain had snapped up debt-laden Chelsea, the British public were intrigued by Roman Abramovich. It was quickly established that he was a member of the Mayfair club Annabel's, bringing him into contact with the Rothschilds, Prince Michael of Kent and other influential aristocrats. Abramovich had spent a reported £12m on a 450-acre estate at Fyning Hill, West Sussex, for Irina, his wife, and their five children. He was rumoured to have put Arkady and Ilya, his two sons, down for Eton. His unofficial publicity machine provided a few Dostoevskian scenes: his mother died when he was 18 months old; his father was killed in a construction accident; the orphan Roman was raised by an uncle in Komi, a Siberian province that was formerly a hub for the Stalinist gulags. However, by 1996, at the age of 30, Abramovich had become so rich and politically well-connected that he had become close to President Boris Yeltsin, and had moved into an apartment in the Kremlin at the invitation of the Yeltsin family. In 1999, and now a tycoon, Abramovich was elected governor of Russia's remote, far eastern province of Chukotka, and has since lavished £112m on charity to rebuild the impoverished region. The identikit image being pieced together for us was of a self-made man who was not only powerful and wealthy, but acutely aware of those who had done less well in the tumultuous 1990s, when the Soviet Union fell. In fact, little of substance is known about Abramovich's wealth other than that he is one of 23 Russian entrepreneurs who took advantage of the privatisation of Russia's state assets in the mid-1990s. This exclusive group now controls 60% of the Russian economy, and their combined wealth amounts to £44.6bn. Abramovich is the protege of Boris Berezovsky, a maths professor turned car dealership tycoon, who helped him secure a hold over Sibneft in 1995 - until Berezovsky fled to Britain in 2000. Russia's richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a majority shareholder in Yukos oil, struck a merger deal with Abramovich last year - although it is now in the hands of lawyers after Khodorkovsky was jailed pending trial on fraud and tax evasion charges. Sharing the same social circle is Ralif Safin, who controls a £300m stake in Russian energy giant Lukoil and who last summer was linked to a bid to buy Manchester United. Oleg Deripaska, Abramovich's shareholding partner in RusAl, is said to be worth £820m, while Mikhail Fridman, another of Abramovich's competitors, has recently made himself even richer by selling 50% of Tyumen Oil to BP for £3.72bn. But how did Abramovich make so much money in such a short amount of time? How did one man come to control a reported £5.3bn stake in Sibneft, a state energy provider that only 10 years ago was bequeathed to Russia's citizens, predominantly the tens of thousands of Soviet oil workers and managers who built the industry? Abramovich is notoriously coy, and has talked only in the vaguest terms about the source of his wealth. That is why we have come here, to the crow's nest of an ice-encrusted burovaya out on the western Siberian tundra, the start of Abramovich's cash pipeline, to ask his workers how they lost their share in Russia's oil billions. And now that the team from Belarus has reconnected the pipe above our heads, we can feel a pulsing as the rig comes back to life. The arrows on the LED flow-meter begin to flutter. Oil gushes freely once again: six barrels filled every minute, 375 an hour, 9,000 a day from this rig alone, grossing £150,000 every 24 hours for Abramovich's Sibneft, which in the first half of 2003 posted a net profit of £770m, an increase of 190% on the previous year. To reach the Sibneft wells, you have to travel a circuitous route. It is not just a question of geography and meteorology - time zones, thousands of miles and a subarctic crust of ice. Nor that it is an autonomous region, physically and politically distant from Moscow. The oilfields of western Siberia generate one quarter of Russia's wealth, nine million barrels a day - equivalent to £166m - making this a hugely sensitive region. Foreigners can visit only at the invitation of Sibneft or one of its competitors. In a windowless conference room in Moscow, within a shout of the Kremlin, we meet Abramovich's sharp-suited spokesman. John A Mann II is no ordinary public relations executive, but a veteran spin doctor from the cauldron of Washington DC, and former vice-president of US PR giant Burson-Marsteller, the company that represents Ford and Coca-Cola, and has in the past acted for Union Carbide following the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India and the Exxon oil company after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Mann bowls first: "All that stuff about Roman [pronounced Ro-man] buying up half of London, even Bernie Ecclestone's place, is complete rubbish." He rocks back in his chair. "People talk of Roman like he is some kind of mafioso, but he is only displaying the kind of nous that businessmen champion in the City of London." Mann leans over. "Roman doesn't even let me tell half the good stuff. This weekend, he's spiriting a bunch of poor Russian kids to London to catch a performance of Mamma Mia. What a PR opportunity, and I have to sit on it. Roman's changed the lives of 70,000 people in his province, Chukotka. They used to be starving and now they all have Dolby Surround Sound. Do you think they're complaining? But for Roman it's not an ego thing." How did Abramovich come to control Sibneft, we ask. "We don't write anything about the old days. That's prehistory. If you read our website, you'll see it was just a question of timely investment and share consolidation." Why do fewer than 4% of Sibneft employees own shares in the company? Mann is dismissive: "Roman is just one of our shareholders. We have thousands of them, including many employees, and we pay all of them dividends every year. I don't think we have ever said how much Roman personally holds. There's no requirement in Russia to reveal to you our share register." Can we talk to Abramovich directly (something we have been requesting now for four weeks)? Mann chuckles: "I think you just missed him. He flew to London this morning with some more poor kids from Chukotka. Anyhow, it's a quiet time right now. No interviews. No headlines." Abramovich is lying low. Can we go to the western Siberian oil wells and meet Sibneft's workers? Mann nods. "If you can get yourself to Noyabrsk, our town, we will arrange a permit. We're really open, not like other companies." Within days, we are flying east over the Ural mountains and north-west across the great Ob river towards the Barents Sea. For three hours, the landscape below barely changes: a frozen cat's cradle of tracks leading to isolated communities we cannot see. From the air, the dormitory town of Noyabrsk is a tiny, ice-white blip that is permanently covered in hoarfrost. We step off the plane and are hit by the juggernaut of an arctic wind. A shiny new Sibneft people carrier is waiting for us, purring in the airport car park. Beside it are two Sibneft employees in black fur shapkas holding a sign: "The Guardian." The gloves come off. We shake hands. "Welcome to our town," the Sibneft men chorus as ice crystals clog our nostrils. Outside the airport stands a Soviet-style concrete obelisk on which an oil worker wields a raised spanner. But Noyabrsk's old Soviet aura vanishes as soon as you breach the city limits. Posters wrap up the entire town in Sibneft's corporate messages, directed at visiting investors and the company's employees, who make up one third of the 107,000-strong population. Giant photographs of Arcadian scenes are draped across concrete apartment blocks. Bees feed from purple thistles. A robin perches on a violet hollyhock. A butterfly sips nectar among chrysanthemums. But the splashes of colour sit oddly alongside the monochrome, igloo gloom of Noyabrsk, where the cold muffles every sound apart from the creaking ice. What is it like working for Abramovich, we ask our minders? "Well, he's never been here," one of them says dismissively. "I thought you wanted to meet the workers," the other snaps. "Let's go then." Two hours later, we skid up to a state-of-the-art complex 70 miles north of Noyabrsk. Shimmering aluminium pipes lead to a golden flare. With the assistance of international oil contractors, including Halliburton, Sibneft has begun to modernise a belching Soviet industry. We leave the people carrier, and by the time we reach rig five we can no longer feel our hands and feet. A maintenance brigade dressed in voluminous salopettes, Arctic mittens and balaclavas is repairing the rig, a geyser of steam and water shooting up into the air as they pull sections of pipe out of the ground. "Can we come up?" we shout to the rigmaster. "Where have you people come from?" he calls back. "London! There's never been a British person here before. Climb on up." Our minders are not invited and plod back to the people carrier looking worried. Vladimir Ramazanov, 43, from the Siberian town of Nizhnevartovsk, is the head of the maintenance brigade and works out here at -35C for 12 hours a day, 15 days on and 15 days off. He says, "It's a nine-hour bus ride home, but I keep coming back. I have been drilling for oil for 18 years and can't do anything else. Anyhow, why are we freezing our balls off out here? I'm going to make some tea." Ramazanov slides off the platform and leads us to a fatigued and rusty block of heated wagons, whose lacy curtains add an incongruous hint of domesticity. He pulls off his felt snow boots and settles on to a stool, grinning at us in disbelief with rows of golden teeth. Do Ramazanov and any of his 18-man crew own any shares in the oil industry, we ask. He explodes in a fit of choked laughter and lights a cigarette. "We earn now less than we did in Soviet times. We do earn more than many Russians, the fifth highest wage earners, but I doubt that any of us still hold shares." This is not the way it was supposed to be. On Christmas Day 1991, President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation and the end of the USSR. A group of economic reformers protected by Yeltsin, who had been elected president the previous June, began a course of shock therapy, dismantling the centralised economy. On January 2 1992, prices of all goods and services were freed, and six months later laws were passed heralding the immediate privatisation of 80% of state enterprises, from pencil factories to oil refineries. On August 20 1992, as the privatisations unfurled, Yeltsin announced that Russia was about to become a stakeholding society. Every citizen was to be issued with a voucher worth 10,000 roubles (then worth about £30, the equivalent of an average monthly wage) that they could exchange for shares in the companies that employed them or in any other former state enterprise. The vouchers could also be invested in savings schemes. To ensure a fair distribution of wealth, shares in each newly privatised company would be divided into three tranches, one set aside for the 57 million workers and managers, another solely for outside investors, and the remaining controlling interest retained by the state. There would be "millions of owners rather than a handful of millionaires", Yeltsin pledged. "Everyone will have equal opportunities in this new undertaking and the rest will depend on ourselves... The privatisation voucher is a ticket for each of us to a free economy." Rigmaster Ramazanov slurps his tea. "We didn't understand the concept of owning shares, and there wasn't even a Russian word for 'privatisation'. More educated people took the opportunity." While most Russians grappled with what to do with their vouchers, Roman Abramovich relished the challenge set down by Moscow. By 1992, the 25-year-old was already familiar with the notion of a free market, having taken advantage of the legalisation of private businesses introduced by Gorbachev in 1987 to set up an oil trading company. For five years, he had bought cheap Russian oil for a few roubles a barrel and sold it abroad for a considerable profit. Now Abramovich allegedly bought up blocks of vouchers from oil workers, converting them into shares in western Siberian energy companies - there was nothing to stop him, it was perfectly legal. The impoverishment of Russia helped Abramovich consolidate his holding. "After the prices were freed up in 1992," says Ramazanov, "everything went to hell." The rouble fell on the foreign exchange market from 230 per dollar in January 1992 to more than 3,500 by December 1994, wiping out most people's savings. The impact on the population was dramatic. Life expectancy for men fell from 65 in 1987 to 59 in 1993. The number of suicides rose by 53%, as more than one third of the population slipped below the poverty line. In early 1994, stalls appeared in western Siberian towns such as Omsk and Noyabrsk offering cash in exchange for vouchers that were said by the agents to be worth no more than a handful of kopeks. Ramazanov says, "Of course people sold up." Many accused Boris Berezovsky and Abramovich of creating front companies to run these market stalls, an opportunistic rather than an illegal operation. Both men decline to comment on the allegation. Ramazanov continues: "If we had held on to our vouchers and exchanged them for shares, we would have made a lot of money. We hated President Yeltsin for allowing us to be ripped off by these New Russians." Economists who devised the voucher scheme now concede that the trade in them could have been inhibited if one simple measure had been introduced. Sergei Vasiliev, a member of Yeltsin's economic reform team and today chairman of the Committee on Financial Markets in the Federal Assembly, the Russian parliament's upper house, told Weekend, "If we had issued savings books in each citizen's name that were non-transferable, speculators would not have been able to obtain large blocks of shares. But we couldn't afford to print 150 million savings books. One piece of paper, a voucher, was much cheaper." In July 1994, a Mnenie poll for the Izvestiya newspaper revealed that only 8% of Russians had exchanged their vouchers for shares in the enterprises in which they worked. At that time, of the 18 men on rig five, seven invested their vouchers in fraudulent savings schemes, five sold them for cash and two had not even bothered to pick them up. Only four had bought and held on to shares. Ramazanov drains his cup. "Below our feet is more oil than we could ever extract, and massive profits are to be had for decades to come. Me and my crew will have little to show for it. Don't take my word for it. Go and see how the guys did down the road." We skittle along the frozen highway to the neighbouring rig where the Sibneft team from Belarus are mending a screw-drill rig. One hundred metres above the drifts, with the broken connection thrashing over our heads, we ask the drillmaster Valery Novik how he and his team had fared during the reforms. "The same as most," he says. "We didn't do well. We're not trained to understand shares and economics. The people who got an education invariably pulled one over on us. Anyhow, the New Russians were soon given a nice present by Yeltsin." By 1995, the majority of Russians were worse off under capitalism then they had been during communism, and the party began to bounce back. Yeltsin would have to fight a persuasive and high-profile pro-democracy campaign if he was to win the presidential election of 1996. He was desperately in need of funds, and turned to men such as Abramovich and Berezovsky, whom he invited to participate in the so-called "loans for shares" scheme in return for financial backing. Yeltsin decreed that the government would auction its tranche of shares in state enterprises in return for loans to shore up the fragile economy. Once Yeltsin had been re-elected and the country stabilised, the loans would be repaid and the state would reclaim its assets. In the oil town of Surgut, 250 miles south of Noyabrsk, on the day the government auctioned its stake in Surgutneftegas, the airport was closed, the roads blocked by police, and only one bid was received - from Vladimir Bogdanov, the resident general director of Surgutneftegas. He became a multimillionaire overnight, and today is worth an estimated £1bn and remains the company's president. The following month, in November 1995, Vladimir Potanin, an influential banker, snapped up Norilsk Nickel, Russia's largest nickel company, for £78m less than the government's asking price. Within months, he had become first deputy prime minister, and today, although he no longer holds political office, he is, according to Forbes magazine, worth getting on for $2bn. Next up was Yukos, Russia's third largest oil company, which was sold for £173m (a fraction of its real value) to sole-bidder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a member of parliament in the Russian duma. Not only had 32-year-old Khodorkovsky helped draft the "loans for shares" legislation, but his Menatep bank (which had become wealthy by trading vouchers) also policed the auction. Today, Khodorkovsky is the richest man in Russia, worth an estimated £8.4bn, his portfolio encompassing 40 former Soviet enterprises. But the true scale of Khodorkovsky's bargain-basement purchase of Yukos became clear only in October 2003 when, following his arrest, Russian prosecutors froze 44% of the company's assets, revealing that they were worth more than £7bn. And then, in December 1995, four oil exploration, drilling, refining and distribution companies in Noyabrsk and Omsk came up for auction, in a deal that would see them combined into a holding company to be named Sibneft. A confidential financial analysis by a leading Russian brokerage firm, seen by Weekend, along with a deposition made by a state parliamentarian last October to the Russian prosecutor general, allege that the Sibneft "loans for shares" auction was rigged. Yeltsin authorised Neftyanaya Finansovaya Kompanya (NFK), a company closely linked to Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, to manage the auction of 51% of Sibneft. But despite the winning highest bid having come from Uneximbank, which offered approximately £230m for 51% of Sibneft, Russian critics were amazed to see Finansovaya Neftyanaya Kompanya (FNK), a barely disguised relation of NFK, the company that had managed the sale, winning the Sibneft shares with a lower bid of £117m for assets valued at £337m. A legal action against FNK was launched and then abandoned, after Uneximbank inexplicably withdrew its complaint. FNK was then revealed to have been another Berezovsky affiliate company that was also connected to his new partner, a 29-year-old oil trader called Roman Abramovich. Sibneft spokesman Mann says: "FNK won an auction to purchase 51% of Sibneft. The other 49% was privatised during a series of competitive auctions beginning in January 1996." Yeltsin won the presidential election, financed by a private war chest of £140m in donations made by the new oligarchs. Two years later, FNK was allowed to keep its 51% share in Sibneft after the government announced it would not be repaying its loans. Abramovich and Berezovsky now owned a controlling share in an oil company whose reserves of more than four billion barrels were equivalent to those of Texaco, Chevron and Mobil. By comparison, the average oil worker's wage was £1.90 an hour, making an 18-man crew worth £75,000 a year, the sum of their combined salaries. Drillmaster Valery Novik rolls his eyes and says, "We are too busy running these rigs, working back-to-back shifts, seven days a week, to worry about what the bosses get up to." Abramovich and Berezovsky now began to consolidate control over their share in Russia's former state enterprises. Noyabrsk is sheltering under a thunderous snow sky. Vicious flurries that Russians call bozyomkas slice down the streets, sweeping a lone dog off its feet. The town is deserted because no one wants to battle with the weather on these kind of mean days. Another Sibneft minder sits with us in the people carrier taking us to the satellite town of Muravlenko, three and a half hours to the north-west. No one talks as the driver nips in between brutal articulated lorries that hurtle along the iced highway. "You're only here because Roman Abramovich is richer than your Queen," the minder pipes up at last. "I read it in our newspaper." We laugh, but the minder becomes distracted by a giant poster of an oil worker that flashes past the window. "The man you are about to meet," he says, pointing, "one of Sibneft's most productive employees." Muravlenko is rougher around the edges than Noyabrsk. On the fifth floor of a wooden-clad apartment block, Vladimir Sterhov invites us in. His face has a beaten-up quality, quite different from the youthful image of him on the billboard. Gulnara, his wife, beckons us into their kitchen with a bottle of honey whisky made by her in-laws in Bashkortostan. For five minutes, we politely discuss Sterhov's embarrassment at seeing his face on an advertising hoarding. But when we ask if he has any Sibneft shares, Sterhov becomes agitated. "I have no shares in anything. Tell me, will anyone censor what you write? If not, I have nothing to lose by telling you the truth. There is a saying that there is no exile further than the north, and I am already here for life." The Sibneft minder shrugs his shoulders and Sterhov continues. "After Abramovich won the 'loans for shares' auction in 1995, we became Sibneft employees and the company stopped our wages for two, three, four months at a time." The Sibneft minder nods vigorously. "It's true. That's right," he says. "Our wages were held back." Sterhov continues: "Sibneft said it couldn't afford to pay us. The country was heading for another financial crisis, and by August 1998, when the economy collapsed for the second time, people here were desperate. Then Sibneft started saying that although it couldn't pay our wages, it would buy any shares left over from the privatisations of 1992." Company shops sprang up in Noyabrsk and Muravlenko, where the Sibneft shares were accepted instead of money. "Food, fridges, anything," says Sterhov - a claim that would be repeated by many Sibneft employees we interviewed in Muravlenko and Noyabrsk. This was not the only way that Sibneft ended up with the bulk of the shares. An account of Sibneft's complex financial manoeuvrings, produced by Russian analysts and seen by Weekend, confirms that in August 1997 Sibneft issued 45 million new shares in one of its most profitable subsidiary companies. Core shareholders such as Abramovich and his partners were able to increase their stake in this subsidiary from 61% to 78% in this closed share issue. As a result, the shares belonging to workers who had bought into the subsidiary in 1992 were watered down and significantly dropped in value. The Sibneft workers launched a futile legal action while the £168m in extra revenue raised by the share issue was used by Sibneft to settle tax liabilities. Christopher Granville, chief strategist of United Financial Group, a brokerage in London, told us, "Sibneft's minority shareholders were completely ripped off. The new shares were a closed subscription offered only to core shareholders." The Sibneft minder sitting beside us chips in. "My shares plummeted in value, along with everyone else's, when the 1997 closed share issue was announced." Lord Richard Layard, co-director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE and an economic adviser to the Yeltsin government, said that this strategy was possible due to loopholes in company law. "Most Russian companies did not issue share certificates. The only proof of ownership was a shareholders' registry, quite often a handwritten book that was held by the company. In some cases, the records of a shareholder's ownership were simply crossed off this list. In other cases, firms issued new shares, free to some of their shareholders, without informing the others."Mann responds for Sibneft: "Any registrar system based on people, pen and paper is open to human error but Sibneft has never had a policy of crossing shareholders off its registry." By 1999, Sibneft's most productive worker, Vladimir Sterhov, was struggling to feed his family on a monthly salary that sometimes dipped as low as £112. Abramovich and his core shareholders had bought out Berezovsky, and through a new series of auctions won control of 97.2% of Sibneft. The following year, the company began paying dividends that broke all Russian corporate records: £28m in 2000; £552m in 2001; £612m in 2002; and £696m last year, of which £640m went to Abramovich and his fellow core shareholders (who by now included Eugene Shvidler and Kenneth Dart, a carpetbagging Styrofoam cup billionaire and resident of the Cayman Islands). Vladimir Sterhov takes a sip of honey whisky: "In Russia, a lot has changed. We workers are now the small people and we do not matter." Sergei Rusakov, Sibneft's chief engineer and deputy director of regional operations in Noyabrsk, denied that his employees had been ripped off: "I've been here from the beginning and I bought shares in 1992. I'm still a minority shareholder and I do very well. I don't dispute that a lot of employees no longer have shares. But it's not in a Russian's character to dwell on what has been lost. Those who sold their shares or vouchers didn't lose out completely. They bought apartments and cars and fridges, and at the time they did this they thought they had a good deal." None of them, however, owns football clubs, country mansions or multimillion-pound yachts moored on the C¿te d'Azur. No one in Noyabrsk will say that it was better in the old days. Remarkable things were achieved in Russia during the transformation period. More than 106,000 state enterprises were privatised in two years. But the free market has cost the average citizen dear. While there are 23 resident billionaires in Moscow - a figure topped only by New York, with 31 - Russia's per capita gross domestic product is now less than that of Costa Rica. This may simply be evidence of the acquisitive the knot.

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  Blues skipper JOHN TERRY has been given a two-week trip oIrina Abramovich no doubt built up a collection of stunning jewellery during her marriage to one of the world's wealthiest men, but it was the pearl of the Adriatic - Dubrovnik - which caught her eye recently as she took her children on a sun-drenched holiday off the coast of Croatia. The Russian mum-of-five, who is using her former husband's luxurious 115-M/Y Eclipse is a 482,6 feet / 147 m long and 70.5 feet wide luxury yacht under construction by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, GermaRoman Abramovich Buys a Castle // Real Estate Great Britain's The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday that “Russian billionaire” Roman Abramovich has bought a property in the South of France. That is the Chateau de la Croe on the French Riviera, where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor once lived. The newspaper did not indicate the exact date of the purchase, but said that the new lord of the manor is busy with renovations to the building, which was seriously damaged in a fire in 1980. Unofficial information has it that Abramovich paid £15 million ($27 million) for the villa. The newspaper speculated that it would cost at least that much to restore the property. One of the sources of the newspaper's information on Abramovich was clearly the new book Abramovich: The Billionaire from Nowhere by Dominic Midgley & Chris Hutchins. The authors write that the chateau was Abramovich's “greatest love.” After the publication of the book, Abramovich press secretary John Mann confirmed that he had bought the property, but refused to make any other comments. “Yes, he owns the villa. But he doesn't like to attract attention to himself and doesn't want his plans for that object to be common knowledge,” Mann said. The Chateau de la Croe is located in Cap d'Antibes, a very prestigious part of the French Riviera between Nice and Cannes. It stands next to the villa Eilenroc, built in 1867 by Charles Garniet, designer of the Paris Opera. Eilenroc has been home to such figures as Belgian king Leopold II, Egyptian king Farouk, Aristotle Onassis and Greta Garbo. Association with a famous name usually raises the value of a property by 20 percent. The history of the Chateau de la Croe is also full of recognizable names and memorable events. It was built in 1927 in strict Victorian style for an English aristocrat and his family. In 1938, the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of Great Britain, and his wife became its owners. After falling in love with the twice-divorced Wallace Simpson, Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936 and left England in order to marry her. When she moved to the rented chateau, the Duchess spent huge sums to recreate there the conditions her husband had become accustomed to in the royal palace. The most expensive furniture, silver and porcelain were imported from England. The layout of the 12-bedroom villa was substantially altered, although the Duchess left the gold-plated, swan-shaped bathtub intact. Owners since then have refitted the villa to their taste and, at some point, the swan tub fell victim to those changing tastes. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor held sumptuous receptions at the chateau, hosting royalty and the political elite, including Winston Churchill. In time, the couple grew bored with the residence, however, and moved to Paris. In 1952, the chateau was bought by Greek shipbuilding magnate Stavros Niarkos. The purchase was handled by the local real estate agency of John Taylor, which to this day operates with high-end properties (from €1million. They have had deals for €30 million). An employee of John Taylor, who wished to remain anonymous, said that Niarkos sold the property to a rich American.ny. The yaRoman Abramovich's new £250m villa is world's most expensive house! From ANI London, July 10: Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich's new home has become the most expensive house on earth, after he paid a whopping 250 million pounds for it. The Russian billionaire recently picked up the majestic hilltop villa overlooking the French Riviera after falling in love with it during a private viewing along with his girlfriend Daria Zhukova. The villa, called La Leopolda is know not only to have the best sea views in the south of France, but it also sits on 10 acres of immaculate grounds that run right down to the resort of Villefranche. It also has the added attraction of being just a stone's throw from Monte Carlo, reports the Daily Express. Previous owners of the villa, originally built for Belgian king Leopold's mistresses, include late banking magnate Edmund Safra, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Fiat tycoon Gianni Agnelli. Abramovich's purchase means that he will now be making a monthly payment of 1.6 million pounds to pay its mortgage. The new addition adds to a list of Abramovich's lengthy list of real estate. He already owns the 15million pounds Chateau de la Croe just down the road from La Leopolda. The Chateau was where former British monarch the Duke of Windsor fled with Wallace Simpson in 1938. Apart from these two, Abramovich also has properties in Knightsbridge, Sussex and Russia.cht is expected to be delivered to Roman Abramovich in 2008 and is billed to be the world's largest private yacht (as the world's largest megayacht, M/Y Dubai is not private) with a price tag over $300,000,000. When Eclipse is launched, Abramovich's private "navy" will consist of four motoryachts; the Eclipse itself, Pelorus, Sussurro and Ecstasea. Previously owned "Le Grand Bleu" was presented to Abramovich's associate and friend Eugene Shvidler in June 2006. The nine level Eclipse will have at least two helipads, several hot tubs, one pool, three or four launch boats, 20 jet skis and a private submarine. The sub exits the hull through the bottom, allowing the owner to come and go in complete privacy. Privacy served as the essence of the design concept of Eclipse that opened a new development direction compared to previous yacht concepts. The foyer is located in the very center of the ship and has a key role in separating the owner, the guests and the shipping crew from one another. There are flashlight sensors installed against Paparazzi cameras. For security, the yacht will be fitted with motion sensors and a special missile-detection system. The yacht was designed by Hermidas Atabeyki[1]. The Eclipse (Also Known as: Project M-147) is equipped with an onboard swimming pool on the upper deck plus a cinema and a disco. Its six guest suites can accommodate 24 people. In addition to the mentioned "guestrooms" five VIP suites and an owner's cabin can be found. The yacht's design also features an innovative full-beam loggia, or open area two levels below the bridge deck linking the saloon forward with the main dining area aft. In the stern there is a round shaped room that has a glass front providing an impressive 270° panorama view. The boat will have a cruise speed of 25 knots in spite of its gigantic size. The premises by floors are the followings: Floor 9: helicopter pad and garage enabling to store 2 helicopters in a closed area. Helicopter elevators also installed. Floor 8: Sundeck, swimming pool, bar Floor 7: The pool trunk/atrium, the pilothouse forward and an open deck area aft that can be used asa an open-air disco, an observation lounge, or a casual dining area for guests Floor 6: Saloon (front), main dining room (aft). Between the dining area and saloon is the loggia, 40 by 60 feet and open to either side but sheltered from weather by the two decks above. Floor 5: Owner’s suite (5,000 sq. feet) with a private garden area (foredeck) spanning Decks 4 and 5. Six VIP suites with private balconies. Floor 4: Six guestrooms just aft of the main entry foyer. Floor 3: Theater and exhibition room. Floor 2: Docking port for the specially designed 12-person submarine. Floor 1: Engine room and machinery space. [edit] Features: Physical parameters: Length overall 187.10 m, Breadth 121.50 m Draught 15.0 m Speed: Max. speed 50.0 kn Cruising speed 45.0 kn Capacity: Owner and guests - maximum 24 persons Rooms: 1 owner suite 16 guest suites 15 VIP suites Crew: 60 Outfitting: Loggia, Atrium, Several lounges, Cinema, Disco, Outside pool, Submarine garage, Helicopter hangar, Several pleasure boats, Tenders. [edit] See also Roman Abramovich Pelorus List of motor yachts by length [edit] References Wall Street Journal Roman's empire: where Abramovich spends his billions Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Houses, jets, yachts, cars – and now paintings. As the oligarch is revealed to have bought £60m of art, Ciar Byrne uncovers what he spends his billions on The art Roman Abramovich has been revealed by The Art Newspaper to be the mystery buyer who bought Francis Bacon's Triptych (1976) for $86.3m (£44m) at Sotheby's New York last week, as well as splashing out $33.6m on Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), at Christie's. Both works made auction history, the Bacon achieving the highest price for a postwar work of art and Freud becoming the most expensive living artist at auction, taking the title from Jeff Koons. It is believed the Russian tycoon purchased both works to display at his London home. But his newfound interest seems to be inspired chiefly by his girlfriend, Daria "Dasha" Zhukova, pictured below, who is opening a gallery in Moscow. The Centre for Contemporary Culture Moscow will open in September at a bus depot designed by Konstantin Melnikov, with a retrospective of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Amy Winehouse is reported to have been offered £1m to perform at the launch. Roman Abramovich has been revealed as the buyer of this triptych bEnter the Giga-Yacht Throw away your measuring tape, as the trend in super- and megayachts is toward the ever more superlative, over-the-top, out-of-this-world. By Dudley Dawson Published: June, 2005 What in blue blazers is going on in the yachting world? Big yachts getting bigger-so big they're calving submarines. Big yachts looking like small yachts-enormous versions of what are essentially open and express cruisers. Yards and builders getting bigger. Heck, even owners getting bigger, with larger-than-life characters: American and Arab and Russian and Chinese. (Which of course means the bodyguards are getting bigger, too.) Wherever you look today, yachts are straining to escape the bounds of gravity and even at times credibility, and as we try to put our arms around these trends, the word that comes to mind isn't super, or mega…but giga. We have entered the era of the gigayacht. And here are the trends to prove it. Supersize It! Big yachts are getting bigger. The increase in length is an easy statistic to use, but it doesn't tell the story by far. When you go from 150 feet to 300 feet, it is not twice the yacht, but closer to six times as large in terms of interior volume, tonnage, complexity and cost. As I stood in Oceanco's yard a few years ago, gazing at the 312-foot Al Mirqab, one of the builder's staff could not help making the obvious comparison with two smaller superyachts floating alongside. "How'd you like to be the owner of one of those, and arrive to see your new 170-footer looking like a runabout?" The last year or two has seen several launches of yachts that would dwarf Al Mirqab, including Octopus (410 feet) and Pelorus (377 feet), both from Lürssen. Although recent months have been short on announcements of such megamonster deliveries, they have not gone away. Often bound by draconian secrecy clauses, the builders refuse to talk about these supersized superyachts, but a few clues escape. Lürssen recently delivered Northern Star (210 feet) and Air (300 feet), and a 453-footer is reported from the yard this year as well. (For more on Northern Star, see this month's Superyacht Report.) Besides her length, Air is newsworthy for her propulsion system. With no gearing, shafts or rudders, she is powered by eight diesel generators. The generators supply electrical power to a pair of electric motors directly driving propellers. The motors are encased outside the hull in watertight pods that rotate for steering, hence azimuthing, giving rise to the name: Azipods. The advent of such systems, and the technical reasoning behind them, was foretold by Yachting in our June, 2001 issue ("The Pod Squad"); expect to see more of them. Germany doesn't have a complete monopoly on the large ladies, but it certainly seems to be in the lead. In addition to the Lürssen deliveries, both Blohm + Voss and HDW have delivered significant yachts in the past and are actively promoting new projects at this time. Blohm + Voss launched the 344-foot Lady Moura in 1991 and, with Lürssen, the 525-foot Golden Star/ Platinum more recently. Latest information from Blohm + Voss shows their Project M-147, a 482-foot yacht that carries a helicopter topside, a drydock for the tender at the stern and a submarine garage integrated into the hull. Design is by Hermidas Atabeyki. HDW grabbed the headlines several years ago with the 452-foot Mipos, now Al Salamah. A more recent delivery is the 303-foot Tatoosh, owned by Paul Allen as he worked his way up another 100 feet to Octopus. More recent information from HDW shows Crystal Ball, a strikingly modern 460-footer with a glass-enclosed superstructure. She is from the boards at francisdesign. In addition to the German yards, two of Holland's builders have toyed with the big time. Amels Holland has built yachts into the 250-foot range and with its huge Schelde yard, a former naval shipyard, was negotiating at one point for a 525-foot yacht. Feadship, amid strict secrecy, delivered the 282-foot Ecstasea last year and is busy completing facilities and hiring workers for a third yard intended for even larger yachts. While U.S. builders are not yet knocking at the door with 300- and 400-footers, they are closing in on 200 feet. Trinity Yachts launched the 180-foot Mia Elise this spring, the largest steel-hulled displacement yacht built in North America in the past 75 years. Palmer Johnson's La Baronessa, launched several years ago, was 195 feet, and even the fiberglass builders, including Delta Marine and Christensen Yachts, have grown beyond 150 feet recently, continuing to push the limits of the material. Let's drop the top and party… Not only are big yachts getting bigger, smaller ones are getting bigger, too, while keeping that sportboat feel. Open day boats and express cruisers have crept past 100 feet with 108-foot models from both San Lorenzo and Sunseeker. Not content with that, Pershing and Riva have pushed upward to 115 feet with fiberglass yachts and Codecasa with aluminum models, last year's Maria Carla being the first issue with a second delivered this spring. More traditional motoryachts, large and small, are opening up to the great outdoors as well, with sliding and convertible tops and glass aft bulkheads that retract to create huge alfresco areas; many are adopting sleek superstructure lines that mimic the day boats. The Azimut 116, Palmer Johnson's 120-foot Cover Drive and Baglietto's 135-foot Just Cavalli are but three examples. …But party sensibly While yachting has the reputation of a relatively carefree recreational pastime, security concerns cannot be overlooked. Royal yachts have long had various levels of protection quietly built into them. One, to my personal knowledge, has a very secure area deep within the hull that quarters a couple-dozen commandos, very serious-looking individuals who constantly monitor a bulkhead full of video screens and alarm panels, ready to react to any threat. Another has been rumored to carry SAM missiles. Most far-out claim (in Vanity Fair, so add salt): that Paul Allen was offered torpedoes on Octopus, but declined. Private yachtsmen with lesser concerns nevertheless are facing a changing reality and adding increasingly sophisticated monitoring and alarm systems. It is not unusual for crew members to take training in defensive skills, or even for a crew cabin, or perhaps the "nanny cabin" adjacent to the owner's suite, to be occupied by a bodyguard. At least one super-sailboat has been built with bullet-resistant glass and with Kevlar laminated into the deckhouse, not for structural strength but for ballistic protection. Safes and gun lockers are not new, but they are becoming more common, and while we've not been able to confirm it, there are rumors of virtually impenetrable "safe rooms" aboard some superyachts. The Russians are coming, and the Chinese, too Russians are getting into yachting in a big way. Ecstasea, the 282-foot Feadship, is the third smallest-yes, "smallest"-yacht owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. The other two are Le Grand Bleu, a 354-footer originally built for John McCaw by Bremer Vulkan, and Pelorus, the 377-foot Lürssen. Other Russian oil barons have also dabbled in the realm of megayachts, but changes in both the oil and yacht markets and in the domestic political situation leave the realities of some current ownerships a bit muddled. At the lower end of the size range, from more modest superyachts on down to 40-footers, sales are booming in Russia. Most of the early yachts were imported, but now domestic shipyards are starting to take up the slack. Marinas are being developed to moor the yachts and there is at least one Russian-produced yachting magazine to satisfy the growing demand for news and information. Not to be outdone, and spurred by a booming economy, the Chinese are taking an increasing interest in yachting. Far East builders such as Cheoy Lee have established new yards in mainland China, but it is not only the builders that are involved. While Chinese ownership of superyachts is limited, they have taken an interest, much like the Russians, in chartering on both an individual and a corporate basis. One broker recently reported what is thought to be a first: a Chinese company chartering a superyacht to entertain clients in Cannes. Love means never leaving a friend ashore The Russians and Chinese are only the latest converts to the joys of chartering, and the selection of yachts available is broader and more numerous than ever. Almost all of the new superyachts are built to MCA safety standards in order to qualify for charter service, whether initially intended for that service or not. International treaties limit the number of charter guests to 12 in many cases, but with the supersizing of yachts, it's a limit that does not enable the owner to take full advantage of the yacht's interior volume. To overcome that restriction, some new charter yachts are being built to tougher passenger ship standards and are carrying up to 36 guests. That's a boatload. Built by Greece's Neorion Shipyard to a detailed specification by Liveras Yachts, and with design by Alpha Marine and H. Poulias, the 280-foot Annaliese was delivered last year in time for the summer Olympics. Her sister Alysia was completed this year, and another 36-passenger charter yacht for Liveras, the 295-foot Mia, will be completed in 2007. With the enthusiastic response they have enjoyed toward the first two yachts, the company is busy working on plans for a 351-footer, Eleni D. Alysia has a 1,300-square-foot master suite, plus an adjoining twin-berth stateroom for children or personal staff, on a private owner's deck. A VIP stateroom is situated on the bridgedeck, as is a twin-berth special-needs cabin that has wide doors and a special shower room. Ten additional guest staterooms are on the main deck, and four more are located on the upper deck. Whether dining inside or out, all 36 guests can be seated at once. Oh, cabaña boy… The level of amenities aboard Alysia, equaling those of the world's best resorts, is perhaps a step above many yachts, but such pampering is becoming more common. Nanny cabins and owner offices are appearing on many superyachts, as are wine cellars, spas and gymnasiums. Entertainment systems often allow on-demand viewing for each stateroom from a selection of hundreds of movies, and audio libraries can be customized to each guest's preferences. Alysia still goes them one better, though, and a peek at her crew list gives a clue. In addition to the captain, mates and engineers, she carries nine in the steward's department, a chef plus three in the galley, a nurse, a masseuse, a beauty therapist and two laundry staff. Her wine cellar has a capacity of 500 bottles, and is temperature and humidity controlled. Her laundry is open around the clock. She has no mere gym, but rather a health center with a multi-gym, treadmill, rowing and cycling machines, and free weights. For guests who are a bit out of shape, the post-relaxation/treatment areas-one for men and one for women-each include a sauna, steam room, cold plunge pool, whirlpool spa and shower. There's also a beauty salon, facial/body treatment area and massage room. For guests who are seriously out of shape but can't resist the gym anyway, Alysia offers her twin-berth medical suite with a nurse on call 24 hours a day. All that pampering is nearly irresistible, but for those who just can't leave the working world behind, she has a business center on the bridgedeck with an internal LAN for connecting computers and peripherals. There's a digital PBX phone system with ISDN capability, with a total of 80 lines, five of which are satellite ship-to-shore connections via Inmarsat. Sail away Sailboats are getting bigger, too, and a lot more sophisticated. Wally Yachts just signed a 100-foot version of their innovative Y3K, and has a 143-footer in the works, too. Vitters will soon be delivering the 180-foot Adele. The typographically challenged MITseaAH, a 157-footer built by Pendennis, has a variable-geometry hull bottom that allows her to plane under power. Mirabella, 247 feet and built by VT Shipbuilding, carries all her sail in a sloop configuration with the world's tallest mast. Athena, a classically styled three-masted schooner, is at 295 feet the world's largest private sailing yacht since the Great Depression; the Royal Huisman beauty cannot be sailed without her complex and powerful hydraulic sailhandling system. To be launched later this year is Perini Navi's 286-foot Maltese Falcon. She will definitely be an attention grabber with her DynaRig sail plan, looking something akin to a Star Wars square-rigger. y Francis Bacon which he bought at auction in New York for £43m The properties In the eyes of Abramovich, when it comes to homes, be they city pads, rural retreats or seaside getaways, you can never have too many. The tycoon owns a country estate at Fyning Hill, near Rogate, West Sussex, which he bought for £12m in 1999 from the Australian media magnate Kerry Packer. The 420-acre estate includes a seven-bedroom house, two polo pitches, stables for 100 horses, a tennis court, a rifle range, a trout lake, a go-kart track, an indoor pool and Jacuzzi and a plunge pool. He reportedly ordered in 20,000 grouse and pheasants to indulge his passion for shooting. In 2004, he was reported to have added the Chateau de la Croë on the French Riviera to his portfolio for £15m. The 12-bedroom villa, on the exclusive Cap d'Antibes between Nice and Cannes, was once the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who held lavish receptions there. Built for an English aristocrat in Victorian style in 1927, the property sits next door to the Villa Eilenroc, built in 1867 by Charles Garnier, the designer of the Paris Opera. Previous owners include the Belgian King Leopold II, Aristotle Onassis and Greta Garbo. Last month he bought Wildcat Ridge, a mansion near Aspen, Colorado, from Leon Hirsch, former head of the medical firm US Surgical, for $36m (£18m). The 14,300 sq ft house sits in 200 acres of land rising 1,000ft above Snowmass Village. It was reported last month that Abramovich planned to build the most expensive private residence in Britain, a £150m mansion in Knightsbridge. The football In 2003, Abramovich bought Chelsea Football Club for £150m and overnight went from being a relative unknown in the UK to one of the most scrutinised men in the country. He is reckoned to have invested some £500m in Chelsea with the aim of making it the number one club in the world by 2014, including building a new, state-of-the-art training headquarters in Surrey. He has made a series of controversial signings such as the Ukrainian striker Andrei Shevchenko, bought from AC Milan in 2006 for a British record of £30m, and Joe Cole, poached from West Ham for £6.6m. In September 2007, the Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, whom Abramovich had recruited, quit to be replaced by the former Israel coach Avram Grant. Having missed out on the Premier League title this season, Grant's position is nowlooking weaker. In 2004, it emerged that Abramovich also had links with the Russian side CSKA Moscow through the oil company Sibneft, in which he had a 73 per cent stake, which struck a three year sponsorship deal with the club. The toys The Russian billionaire owns a fleet of yachts, nicknamed "Abramovich's navy". His super-yacht, the 377ft Pelorus, has a staff of 40, a helicopter, helipad and a cinema. Worth £100m, it is usually moored in Malta – Abramovich prefers to keep his boats in the Mediterranean, although he can sometimes be spotted in the Caribbean. His other yachts include the Sussurro and Ecstasea, while in 2006 he gave Le Grand Bleu to a business associate. According to reports, he will soon add the world's largest private yacht to his fleet, the 550ft, £200m Eclipse, which is said to have two helipads, six guest suites, five VIP suites and a 5,000 sq ft owner's cabin, as well as an aquarium, a disco, a spa and a half-indoor, half-outdoor pool. Abramovich is also reported to own not one but two submarines. His first, a 118ft Seattle 1000, commissioned from the leading manufacturer US Submarines, cost £13m to buy and a further £1m a year to run. With two deck levels, separate living areas for guests and crew, dining rooms and staterooms, the boat is capable of diving to a depth of 1,000ft and can remain submerged for two weeks. He is said to have a second sub on order from US Submarines, a smaller 65ft Nomad 1000, which cost £3m and will dock on the Eclipse. On land, Abramovich owns a £1m Ferrari FXX racing car, and in the air he has a Boeing 767, known as The Bandit thanks to the design by the cockpit. Originally designed to seat 360 people, it was refitted with a luxury interior, including a two-level bedroom, a lounge, offices and a kitchen and crew area. It also has an anti-missile system. The businesses Abramovitch, 41, is estimated by Forbes magazine to have a net worth of $23.5bn (£12bn). Having sold his stake in the Russian oil company Sibneft to the state-owned energy giant Gazprom for $13bn in 2005, he is now the main owner of private investment company Millhouse Capital, which has diverse interests, including a 41.4 per cent stake of Russia's largest steelmaker, Evraz Group, and a 40 per cent stake in the UK mining company Highland Gold, which owns gold deposits in Chukotka, the state of which Abramovich has been governor since 2000 (despite tendering a letter of resignation to Vladimir Putin, which was rejected). The company also invests in real estate, pharmaceuticals and consumer products. Reports that Abramovich recently invested in Neo Vita, Russia's first clinic for the super-rich in Moscow, have been denied. The others In March, it was reported that Abramovich had bought the world's biggest drill for $174m (£89m). The machine has a 19m diameter, making it nearly 25 per cent wider than its nearest rival. The purchase immediately sparked speculation that the billionaire wanted to build a tunnel linking Russia and America under the 88km wide Bering Strait, connecting Chukotka, the frozen Russian region of which he is governor, to Alaska and realising Vladimir Putin's vision of a "WorldLink" tunnel. In a more frivolous vein, Abramovich was reported to have spent more than £200,000 on a 16th birthday party for his daughter, Anna, at the London nightclub Paper, hiring The Klaxons and the Brazilian electro band CSS to provide the entertainment. The 500 guests were treated to a flashing dance floor, a wind machine and alcohol-free cocktails. 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  оссийский бизнесмен Роман Абрамович заказал на германской верфи Blohm & Voss яхту «Эклипс», которая станет крупнейшим частным судном в мире.

  Как пишет The Wall Street Journal, яхта будет иметь две вертолетные площадки, бассейн, собственную подводную лодку. Для обеспечения безопасности она будет оснащен

  An Even Bigger Biggest Yacht

  I was browsing through my latest issue of Yachts magazine — I am what’s known as an “aspirational reader,” since my boating experience consists of renting a kayak once a summer — when I noticed a stunning advertisement.

  The ad was for a yacht-brokerage firm called 4yacht.com. They were listing a very big yacht named Everest. I don’t mean big as in 300 or 400-feet big. I mean big as in 656-feet big. That’s right, 656 feet — which is pretty much a private cruise ship, without all the people or the buffet rooms to clutter things up. Here’s another listing for the boat on Yacht World:

  The 200-Meter “EVEREST” can have accommodations fMOST EXPENSIVE EBAY ITEM THE LONGEST LIST OF THE LONGEST STUFF AT THE LONGEST DOMAIN NAME AT LONG LAST What is the most expensive eBay item in the world? On February 08 2006 eBay closed an auction for a 50% deposit on a yacht. The deposit sold at the 'buy it now' price of $85,000,000.00, the total cost being $168,000,000.00 USD. The yacht is designRoman Abramovich, 37, one of the youngest and most influential of Russia's oligarchs, remained largely unknown until recently. Few people even knew what Abramovich, once called the "stealth oligarch," looked like -- one newspaper offered a reward to the first person to photograph him. Born in 1966 on the Volga, Abramovich was orphaned at the age of 4 and spent most of his adolescence with his grandparents in a bleak western Siberia town 700 miles north of Moscow. After a brief stint in the Soviet army, he made plastic toys and started up an automobile parts cooperative. He attended the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow, then traded commodities for Runicom, a Swiss trading company. Abramovich attributes much of his success to the patronage of oil magnate Boris Berezovsky, who introduced him to Yeltsin's inner circle. By 1996, Abramovich joined the board of directors for Sibneft, Berezovsky's most prized oil holding, and was later put in charge of the company's Moscow offices. After Berezovsky fell out of favor with the new Putin regime, Abramovich took over his patron's oil assets and the country's largest television network. In 2000, Abramovich expanded his empire to form the multibillion-dollar company Russian Aluminum while also branching out into politics. First winning a seat in the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament), Abramovich then became governor of Chukotka, a position he has held for two years. The desolate Russian province has become a sort of personal project for Abramovich -- he has spent tens of millions of dollars of his own money building new homes, supermarkets, hotels and cinemas in Chukotka. Critics say his real motives are control over the region's natural resources and perhaps greater political aspirations. Abramovich's assets are managed offshore through his investment fund Millhouse Capital, located in Britain, which Abramovich seems to slowly be making his home. Estimated Worth: $5.7 billion Current Position: Governor of Chukotka; owner, Millhouse Capital Major Holdings: Abramovich is cashing in on billions of dollars of his Russian assets, selling his majority stake of oil company Sibneft; 25 percent of his shares in Russian Aluminum; his 26 percent stake in Russian airline Aeroflot; and reportedly all of his shares in leading sausage producer Omsk Bacon. Other Interests: Chelsea (U.K.) football club Political Connections: Exiled tycoon Berezovsky brought Abramovich into the Kremlin's inner circle. Once in, Abramovich first befriended Yeltsin's daughter, Tatyana, then the former president himself. Yeltsin's former security chief, who wrote a behind-the-scenes account of the Kremlin, claimed Abramovich was considered "the cashier" of the Yeltsin circle. Tatyana and her husband were frequent guests at Abramovich's dacha. These days Abramovich is said to have close ties to President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin. New Plays: This year, Abramovich purchased Britain's leading football club, Chelsea, in a deal exceeding $300 million. Lifestyle: The billionaire recently added to his portfolio of property a six-story house in London's Eaton Square, part of the estate of the Duke of Westminster, said to be worth more than $46 million. He also owns homes in West Sussex, Moscow and St. Tropez on the French Riviera. Abramovich's custom-made 300-foot yacht, Le Grand Bleu, worth $90 million, features a helicopter and two hovercraft launches. The yacht's christening in Rio de Janeiro was attended by many of Abramovich's friends. Its home port is in Bermuda. Notoriety: Sergei Stepashin, head of the Russian parliament's Accounting Chamber and a close ally of Putin, claimed in July 2003 interviews with Russian media that Abramovich used a tax loophole to enable his oil company, Sibneft, to avoid paying taxes in 2001, and used the money to buy the Chelsea football club. In 2001, according to nonprofit East-West Institute, Russia's tax police opened an investigation against Sibneft concerning allegations that the company failed to pay about $450 million in taxes; the cased was closed without charges. ed by Frank Mulder and built by 4Yacht of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The yacht, dubbed the 'Gigayacht', will feature a 3000 sq. ft. master suite, luxury office area, salon, cinema room, fitness room,10 multi-level VIP Suites with panoramic windows, eight guest cabins, helicopter garage, retractable elevator, and a 55 X 35 pool off the aft deck. The yacht was bought by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and is expected to be delivered in 2007. This sale far eclipses the old record of the most expensive item sold on eBay when on August 16, 2001 a Gulfstream II jet was sold to an African charter airline company for $4,900,000.00 USD. We will try and bring you a picture as well as more details of the world's most expensive item ever sold on eBay as they become available.or 36 passengers and guests consisting of 17 apartments and an Owners private penthouse suite on the top deck. Every suite will have private terraces. In addition the yacht will have an outside swimming pool with a cinema arrangement, large gymnasium, sauna, steam rooms, indoor cinema, and a beach club with side folding platforms port and starboard, as well as a large drive-in docking facility at the aft end for boats and a small submarine. Price on request. Serious Inquiries Only!!!

  Since I recently wrote about the world’s largest yacht under construction, the Eclipse, I was a bit confused. Was Everest eclipsing Eclipse? And if Everest represented the highest peak in yachting, what are they going to call the next biggest boat? Bigger than Everest?

  For help, I called Diane Byrne, the executive editor of Power and Motoryacht magazine. Diane writes the magazine’s annual list of world’s largest yachts and follows this stuff obsessively.

  She says Everest isn’t really a boat. It’s a proposal — a set of preliminary blueprints that brokers and designers try to pitch to potential buyers. Brokers like proposals because they help potential buyers have something more concrete to look at when shopping around. And buyers like them because they help reduce construction time by a year or two, since some of the basic design work and logistics have already been done.

  “The upper end of the yacht market has exploded, so there’s been a movement by designers and builders to create proposals,” Diane said.

  Of course, any buyer of Everest would have some big challenges to overcome. For one thing, the boat is to big to dock in any standard marina. “They would have to dock in a commercial, cruise-ship terminal, and I’m not sure cruise terminals would even let them,” Diane says. “And that’s not as fun, since there’s an element of showing off” with boats this size.

  And of course, there’s the price tag. The “whisper” price for Everest is 350 million euros. That’s right, euros.

  а сенсорами движения и системой обнаружения ракет. Стоимость яхты эксперты оценивают в 300 млн евро.

  Германская компания подтверждает факт строительства яхты где-то на верфи в Германии, но не распространяется о других деталях проекта. Солидарна с ней и британская компания-дизайнер Terence Disdale Ltd., которая заявила, что ничего32 pictures of Roman Abramovich's Pelorus yacht from around the ...32 pictures of Roman Abramovich's Pelorus yacht from around the world. www.roman-abramovich.com/pelorus-yacht-pictures-roman-abramovich.htm - 5k - Cached - Similar pages Agent4Stars.com -- Roman Abramovichs Fleet-- World`s largest Super ...The Roman Abramovich Super Yacht Fleet | 4 Build & 2 in Construction ...... &raquo; <strong>Roman Abramovich Yacht Roman Abramovich </strong> Yacht. ... www.agent4stars.com/yachtsroman.htm - 172k - Cached - Similar pages The World’s 100 Largest Yachts - August 2004 - Power & Motoryacht ...While Limitless isn’t the largest American-owned yacht, she is the largest to fly under the ... 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  Напомним, что помимо строящейся яхты, которая будет длиной 525 футов, Абрамович владеет еще тремя яхтами, в том числе 377−футовой «Пелорус», которая считается 12−й среди самых крупных. Сейчас крупнейшей яхтой в мире владеет дубайский шейх Мохаммед бин Рашид аль-Махтум.

  У Абрамовича будет самая большая яхта в мире. С подводной лодкой и противоракетной системой. ФОТО.
  

  Как пишет The Wall Street Journal, яхта будет иметь две вертолетные площадки, бассейн, собственную подводную лодку. Для обеспечения безопасности она будет оснащена сенсорами движения и системой обнаружения ракет. Стоимость яхты эксперты оценивают в 300 млн евро.

  Германская компания подтверждает факт строительствCould there be a bigger yacht than Roman Abramovich's planned megayacht Eclipse? The Wall Street Journal covers the listing for Everest, a potential yacht, which if built would take the title of world's biggest private yacht. The 200 meter Everest would have 17 cabins plus an owner's suite. The suites would all have private terraces and there would be an outdoor swimming pool, gymnasium, sauna, steam room, cinema and more. The docking area would have room for boats and a small submarine. As the WSJ reports, the yacht would be too big to dock in any standard marina and would have to use a commercial cruise ship terminal. It sounds like if you need this much size it might be more fiscally prudent to just buy and old cruise ship and refit it to your specifications. If you want to build Everest it will cost you 350 million euros.а яхты где-то на верфи в Германии, но не распространяется о других деталях проекта. Солидарна с ней и британская компания-дизайнер Terence Disdale Ltd., которая заявила, что ничего не будет говорить о заказе.
  
  Напомним, что помимо строящейся яхты, которая будет длиной 525 футов, Абрамович владеет еще тремя яхтами, в том числе 377−футовой "Пелорус", которая считается 12−й среди самых крупных. Сейчас крупнейшей яхтой в мире владеет дубайский шейх Мохаммед бин Рашид аль-Махтум.

  £72million floating palace.

  Of all the people to get a free honeymoon . . .

  I’ve also got leaked details of the wedding at Oxfordshire’s Blenheim Palace.

  An insider told me: “Guests have been told to change camera phones to older models so no pics are leaked.

  “Anybody breaking the rules will have their handset confiscated.”

  The couple have requested Harrods vouchers as presents.

  I wonder how many Rom will give them?

  in Hamburg, Germany, is expected to boast two helicopter landing pads, three launches, several hot tubs, a private cinema, a swimming pool and a submarine. It will require a crew of at least 50.
  <p>biggest yacht, Dubai, the 525ft floating pleasure palace, owned by Sheikh Maktoum, the emirate&rsquo;s ruler.
  <p>Security measures planned for Eclipse &mdash; inAt a shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, on a construction dock hidden from public view, workers are toiling away on a special boat. It's called "Eclipse." And if all goes according to plan, it will become the largest privately owned yacht in the world.Eclipse will have at least two helicopter pads, several hot tubs, one pool, three launch boats and a private submarine. For security, it will be fitted with motion sensors and a special missile-detection system.
  <p>The ship's builder, the Blohm &amp; Voss subsidiary of Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, is mum about the project; a spokesman would confirm only that it's building a boat called Eclipse somewhere in Germany. Eclipse's designer, London's Terence Disdale Ltd., would say only this: "We can't say anything at all about this project. This is very secret."</p>
  <p>According to several people involved in the project, Eclipse is the latest water toy for the new king of the seas -- Roman Abramovich.Mr. Abramovich, the Russian oil magnate whom Forbes ranks as the 11th richest man in the world, with $18.2 billion, has an armada that would rival some national navies. In addition to Eclipse -- expected to measure more than 525 feet -- he owns three other mega-yachts, including the 377-foot Pelorus and the 282-foot Ecstasea. He used to own four but recently awarded one, the 370-foot Grand Bleu, to a close business ass

  Montenegro's stunning Adriatic coast is a favourite haunt of wealthy Russians, who can enter the country without visas. Its separation from Serbia last year has put it on a path towards EU membership, fuelling a property boom, and it is rapidly becoming a fashionable destination.

  The actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael Douglas and the tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams are among well-known figures who have travelled to view properties on Montenegro's coast, which was used as the setting for much of the recent James Bond film, Casino Royale.

  Although a spokesman for Mr Abramovich told The Sunday Telegraph, "I am not aware that Roman has any such intentions," a leading local lawyer confirmed that he was working for companies connected with the Russian.

  Dragan Prelevic, the managing partner of the law firm Prelevic, based in the capital, Podgorica, added: "I can unfortunately not reveal the details about my clients' affairs, except that they are currently involved in acquiring property on the Velika Plaza and around it."

  An spokesman for the -Montenegrin tourism ministry, which is involved in the -privatisation of the beach, said she knew of Mr Abramovich's interest and was aware of his acquisitions of private property, though she could not yet comment officially.

  Mr Abramovich's family owns a villa on the coast, and he has -frequently sailed to Montenegro on one of his four luxury yachts.

  The Russian emigré has built up an estimated fortune of £10.8 billion.

  He has British residences in Knightsbridge, west London, and West Sussex, where his 440-acre estate has stabling for 100 horses, two polo pitches, a swimming pool and a go-kart track. He also owns a Boeing 767 jet and a £1.1 million Ferrari FXX racing car.

  He is one of the many Russian investors whose interest in Montenegro is helping its tourism market become the fastest growing worldwide. The price of a square metre of land on the Velika Plaza has jumped from £34 to £170 over the past year - still a bargain compared with the price of £5,440 per sq m in more developed parts of the coastline.

  Aleksandar Vukicevic, the head of Dream Property Montenegro, a leading estate agent with mostly British clients, said: "A year ago the Ulcinj area was of virtually no interest to buyers. Now, following the news about Abramovich's interest, things are changing drastically. There is talk of turning the country into a new Dubai."

  ociate. Says John Mann, a spokesman for Mr. Abramovich: "Mr. Abramovich doesn't comment on his personal property."</p>
  <p>With Eclipse, Mr. Abramovich is not only setting a new high-water mark in the "mine-is-bigger-than-yours" world of mega-yachting. He's also helping to solidify the reputation of the Russians as the new world leaders of global conspicuous consumption. The gusher of oil money and flood of cash from commodities like nickel and aluminum has created a steady stream of new oligarchs, even as the rest of Russia struggles with poverty, high mortality rates and widespread corruption. The average life expectancy in Russia is now 66 years -- 14 years below the European Union average.</p>
  <p>While the 40-year-old Mr. Abramovich now spends much of his time in London, he and other oligarchs are seen as symbols of a new Russian system that places huge riches in the hands of a few. Russia's richest man, Mr. Abramovich has flourished under President Vladimir Putin. Critics say he made much of his fortune from political connections and, like many oligarchs, used his government ties to take over former state-owned assets and reap the profits for personal use. Mr. Abramovich controlled OAO Sibneft, the oil giant, and sold it in 2005 to a state-controlled gas company for $13 billion.Mr. Abramovich made his fortune from his management expertise and financial acumen, not political connections, says his spokesman, Mr. Mann. "The reason Sibneft became successful was because Mr. Abramovich and his partners were good managers who turned the company around and modernized it," Mr. Mann says. He added that Mr. Abramovich has also helped build companies that had never been state-owned, such as aluminum giant Rusal.</p>
  <p>To companies that sell to the rich, this new wealth is a dream come true. Today's Russian Revolution is all about status, and the new Blingsheviks are young, supremely rich and eager to spend. There are at least two dozen Russians now worth at least $1 billion, according to private bankers, and thousands of new multimillionaires have been created in the past five years.</p>
  <p>Russians are buying up castles in Germany, Warhol prints in New York and polo ponies in Argentina. An estimated one in five homes in London's posh Mayfair district is now owned by a Russian, according to real-estate agents. Sotheby's has noticed a surge in Russian buyers for jewelry, watches, fine art and antiques, says Richard Buckley, managing director for North America and South America for Sotheby's.</p>
  <p>Especially when it comes to yachts. The Arabs entered the yachting world with a splash in the 1970s, during the last oil boom. They've held the crown for biggest boats ever since. Arab royals now own the four longest yachts in the world. Among private yachts not owned by heads of state, the Americans still have the lead, with Oracle Chief Larry Ellison's 454-foot Rising Sun and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's 416-foot Octopus ranking first and second. (Mr. Ellison may have already lost full bragging rights: Yacht-industry executives say he recently sold an ownership share in Rising Sun to fellow California billionaire David Geffen. Both declined to comment.)</p>
  <p><strong>Abandoned Midstream</strong></p>
  <p>The Russians are quickly catching up, and putting their yacht-challenged history behind them. Last year, according to a New Zealand builder, one of Mr. Abramovich's countrymen commissioned five yachts. Another Russian, also unnamed, recently commissioned a 483-foot boat but had to abandon the project midstream because of "financial uncertainty," says one builder.</p>
  <p>Yacht broker Nigel Burgess says at least 20% of the business for new vessels over 200 feet is coming from Russians -- more than from any other single country, including the U.S. "They've really taken the yacht business by storm," says Jonathan Beckett, Nigel Burgess's president. "It's very much like the Saudis in the 1970s. Except that the Russians are perhaps more sophisticated."</p>
  <p>Mr. Abramovich has made the biggest waves. Eclipse is designed expressly to overshadow Dubai, the 525-foot behemoth owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai.</p>
  <p>When Eclipse launches, Mr. Abramovich will own more than 1,100 feet of yacht -- the approximate length of the Queen Mary 2. Exact prices for his boats aren't known, but industry experts estimate they range from about $25 million for his smallest to more than $300 million for Eclipse. Annual overhead for the boats is more than $20 million, industry experts say, and it costs him $120,000 just to fill up the tanks of his current largest boat, Pelorus.</p>
  <p>Each vessel serves a different purpose. For entertaining, Mr. Abramovich prefers Pelorus, the 377-footer originally built for a Saudi sheikh. It has bulletproof glass, two helipads, an indoor pool, a steam room and accommodations for 22 guests and more than 40 staff. For cruising, he likes Ecstasea, with a Chinese-themed interior and a top speed of more than 40 knots. The 161-foot Sussurro is mainly used as a loaner or "tag along" yacht for friends during large parties.</p>
  <p>Mr. Abramovich often takes along his Russian business colleagues, as well as British financiers and players on his Chelsea soccer club. His boats are often spotted in Monaco, Portofino and Cannes, as well as parts of South America and the Caribbean. Not all of his passengers get VIP treatment, however: In 2005, when Le Grand Bleu docked in New Zealand, Mr. Abramovich's pet parrot was forced to stay in his cage below deck because of local concern about bird flu.</p>
  <p>cluding bullet-proof glass and motion sensors &mdash; might allay the fears of any high-profile Russians worried by the recent poisoning of the former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in London. It has been rumoured that the yacht may be fitted with a missile detection system, although this could imply that it needs to be fitted with weapons to shoot it down.
  <p>Private security sources said Abramovich&rsquo;s yachts carry armed squads of former Special Air Service and ex-Special Boat Service personnel, ready to deal with unwelcome visitors. The Eclipse is expected to carry a miniature submarine, which could be an escape vehicle for Abramovich and his wife Irina in the event of onboard danger.
  <p>When Eclipse is completed it will raise the size of Abramovich&rsquo;s private navy &mdash; measured by the vessels&rsquo; combined length &mdash; close to that of Ireland, and beyond that of the Albanian navy and coastguard.
  <p>Diane Byrne, executive editor of Power &amp; Motoryacht magazine, said: &ldquo;The advantage of having so many yachts is that he can keep them stationed in different areas and he can fly from one to the other whenever he feels like it.&rdquo;
  <p>Abramovich already owns the 377ft Pelorus, the 370ft Le Grand Bleu, the 282ft Ecstasea and the Sussurro, a comparative tiddler at 160ft, which is used to host &ldquo;spill-over&rdquo; guests from parties aboard his larger yachts. The Chelsea players John Terry and Frank Lampard holidayed on the Sussurro in 2005.
  <p>Abramovich is believed to have put Le Grand Bleu &mdash; which has an aquarium, private cinema and 75ft sailing boat stowed on deck &mdash; at the disposal of his business lieutenant, Eugene Shvidler. When Le Grand Bleu docked in Monaco in 2004, Dame Shirley Bassey said it was so large it ruined the view from her Monte Carlo flat.
  <p>The largest yacht not owned by a head of state belongs to Larry Ellison, the American computing tycoon. His Rising Sun, at 420ft, is followed by the 390ft Octopus of Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft. However, if Eclipse were afloat today, it, Pelorus and Le Grand Bleu would be three of the 10 largest privately owned yachts in the world.
  <p>Ecstasea and Pelorus reportedly cost over &pound;72m each. Eclipse is expected to cost as much as &pound;200m. Abramovich&rsquo;s spokesman, John Mann, said, &ldquo;Mr Abramovich doesn&rsquo;t comment on his personal property.&rdquo;
  <p>At the headquarters of Blohm &amp; Voss, the German company which is building the Eclipse, a spokesman would only say: &ldquo;We do not talk about our projects.&rdquo;
  <p><STRONG>How his fleet compares</STRONG>
  <p>Although Abramovich lacks an aircraft carrier, frigate or destroyer, his &ldquo;fleet&rdquo; of five yachts is comparable in size to the navy of some sovereign states.
  <p>The nation of Cambodia has only four vessels to patrol its coastline on the Gulf of Thailand and extensive inland waterways. Their crews are smaller than those manning the oligarch&rsquo;s yachts.
  <p>Laid end-to end, the eight ships in the navy of the Irish republic, not counting auxiliary vessels, stretch to 1,832ft. The billionaire&rsquo;s yachts are a combined 1739ft.
  <p>At 550ft, Eclipse is longer than any destroyer or frigate in the Royal Navy.
  <p> </DIV>
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FunReports.Com: RUSSIA MAKES IT FUNNY ... realized that only after six hours of driving Wrong fuel destroys luxurious <strong>yacht </strong> of <strong>Roman Abramovich </strong> The <strong>yacht </strong> at the cost of 72 million pounds sterling, which belongs to a famous Russ... funreports.com/?d=2005-8-9 &nbsp; [Found on MSN Search] 15. Spurs set Chelsea &pound;8m deadline over Arnesen : Mail &amp; Guardian League inquiry, after Arnesen was photographed aboard <strong>Roman </strong> Abramovich's <strong>yacht </strong> in the ... Arnesen's meeting with <strong>Abramovich </strong> is understood to... www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__sport&amp;articleid=243761 &nbsp; [Found on Ask Jeeves] 16. OUR YACHT'S BIGGER THAN YOURS, <strong>ROMAN </strong>IT is already home to the UK's tallest building and now Canary Wharf could host the world's largest <strong>yacht </strong> thanks to a proposal to moor a giant floating hotel on its doorstep. 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White Sun of the Desert &raquo; <strong>Abramovich </strong> selling out? ... Chelsea fans. Just in case they thought <strong>Roman Abramovich </strong> may be feeling the pinch after splashing out on ... press-pack wetting themselves over which <strong>yacht </strong> he will buy next. Posted by -... www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=11 &nbsp; [Found on MSN Search] 20. Profile: <strong>Roman Abramovich </strong> | This is Money Profile: <strong>Roman </strong> Abramovich. Chris Stephen in Moscow, Evening Standard 2 July 2003 ... he was reported to have bought the 355ft <strong>yacht </strong> Le Grand Bleu... www.thisismoney.com/20030702/nm64938.html &nbsp; [Found on Ask Jeeves] </span></p>flights to dubai