San Marino, oligarch and consul against Putin – Chronicle
San Marino, March 15, 2022 – He wrote this to his employees in a letter. “The loss of life in Ukraine is a tragedy difficult to justify.” A condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine he is not just any businessman, but the Russian oligarch Vladimir Lisinfriend of the Russian president Vladimir Putin And honorary consul of San Marino in Russia for twenty years.
Chairman and majority shareholder of Novolipetsk, one of the four largest steel companies in Russia, is considered one of the leading experts in the sector. According to Forbes, he was the richest man in Russia in 2013 and the 48th richest in the world the following year. In 2021, he was 59th in the world with an estimated net worth of $ 29.8 billion. A power in his own country and, therefore, his words can only have an important specific weight. In the letter that one of his employees made public on social networks, he also asked a diplomatic solution peaceful to conflict. A not insignificant stance on the part of the Russian oligarch who has been honorary consul of the Titan in Russia since 2002. His business interests, aside from those in steel, include transportation and logistics, and utilities.
A real power. It’s a passionate about shooting sports. And in recent days, even from a sporting point of view, he took sides against the war between Russia and Ukraine when, even in the world of clay pigeon shooting and target shooting, athletes from Russia and Belarus were excluded from any type of competition. This was decided by the effective committee of the Issf, the international shooting federation chaired by Lisin. Meeting in Cairo, the ISSF executive decided to accept “the recommendation of the IOC of last February 28 and therefore, after having deplored the fact that Russia and Belarus broke the Olympic truce, decided to express the representatives of these two nations from every competition “.
It is then expressed “full support to the people of Ukraine“and” humanitarian assistance “to all those who are part of the shooting federation. Finally, the decision of the continental body not to remove the European shooting and target shooting from Russia is welcomed. account, a sentence that came after the letter that Lisin had sent the president of the Italian skeet shooting federation, Luciano Rossi, a long vice president also of the world federation. A letter to the top management of the ISSF asking that “an explicit condemnation of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine” take place, as it later happened.