Artem or Artyom Mikhaylovich Tarasov (; 4 July 1950,

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— 22 July 2017, Moscow) was a

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businessman and political activist of Armenian descent.

Biography

Tarasov was a descendant of a well-known family of Armenian traders. Oil industrialist and dandy Nikolai Tarasov (1882–1910), co-founder of Moscow Bat theatre, and

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(Lev Tarasov) are among his paternal relatives. Born to a photographer father and academic mother, Tarasov received several degrees as an engineer, a computer scientist, and an economic planner. He had a successful career as a scientific manager. His company,

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, was the tenth co-operative officially registered in Moscow, but it was shut down by the Moscow authorities as “amoral, dangerous to society and contrary to socialist principles”. Then, he founded his next successful co-operative, Technika. Tarasov was the co-founder of ''

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'' daily newspaper, the first independent airline, Transaero, and was elected to the Russian parliament. After a conflict with Soviet officials in 1990, he left the USSR and settled in

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. In 1993, he returned to Russia and was once again

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to the

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. In 1996, he decided to run for

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as an independent pro-business candidate, but his application was rejected by the

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. By the late 2000s Tarasov was spending most of his time in London. In 2005, his book, ''Millionaire'', detailing the rise of post-Soviet oligarchs, was published. Tarasov died in Moscow on 22 July 2017 due to heart disease.

References

Links

Official site

from rb.ru –
Interview with Artyom Tarasov
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Артём Тарасов: Миллионер Из Трущоб
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