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  • Two Russian billionaires decline invitation to meet with Putin 

    Two Russian billionaires were unable to go to the Kremlin to take part in President Vladimir Putin’s annual meeting with the country’s top businessmen. 

    Petr Aven, head of Alfa-Bank’s board of directors with an estimated $5.1 billion according to Forbes, and Yandex co-owner and CEO Arkady Volozh ($1.5 billion) declined to attend the meeting which took place on Wednesday, December 26. 

    “I’m just not in Moscow, I am very far from Moscow. There is no special reason,” Aven told TASS. 

    A source …