Alexander Alexandrovich Basansky (; born 6 May 1963) is a

Russian oligarch Russian oligarchs () are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The failing Soviet state left the ownership ...

. According to a 2022 article, he is the First Deputy Chairman of the

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. He is a former high-ranking officer in the Soviet special services, and an ally of Russian president

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. According to ''

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'', he had the fourth highest income amongst all Russian civil servants. His son is the politician Anton Basansky. According to the

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, he has not been sanctioned during the Russian invasion of Ukraine by the United States .

Biography

Basansky was born on 6 May 1963, in Dykanka, Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. He worked as an apprentice electrician in Ukraine, then later in mining in the

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. From 1981 to 1982, he served in the

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. In the 1990s, he served as an executive in a number of companies. He is a founder and owner of the company Arbat (), and the director of Agat () since 1998. He graduated from the

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in 2001. He has substantial influence in the region of

Kolyma Kolyma (, ) or Kolyma Krai () is a historical region in the Russian Far East that includes the basin of Kolyma River and the northern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the Kolyma Mountains (the watershed of the two). It is bounded to ...

in the

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. According to an article in ''

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'', while in Kolyma, Basansky openly ignores the law. He allegedly openly ordered violence against a business rival, whom he referred to as a "rat", and drives recklessly.

References

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