Mr Novikov controls over 50 restaurants in Moscow but doesn’t have an office. He started out with a loan of $50,000 from a Soviet cooperative after being turned down for a job at McDonalds. He now also owns supermarkets, cinemas and florists and is dubbed the “blini baron.” Aside from his 7,000-person empire, he owns the £26m Villa Fontanelle on Lake Como and is said to be especially partial to bread, black cherries and apricots.

The Roll Call - OLIGARCHS

1

Bidzina Ivanishvili (ბიძინა ივანიშვილი, AKA “Boris Ivanishvili”)

2

Goga Ashkenazi (born Gaukhar Berkalieva)

3

Vladislav Doronin (Владислав Доронин, also known as “Vlad Doronin”)

4

Leonard Blavatnik (Леонид Валентинович Блаватник)

5

Leon Max (born Leonid Maxovich Rodovinksi)

6

Evgeny Lebedev

7

Andrey Borodin

8

Leonid Rozhetskin

9

Dmitry Rybolovlev

10

Andrey Melnichenko

11

Arkady Novikov