Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 businessman and the main owner of the private investment company

Investment company

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 Millhouse LLC

Millhouse Capital

Millhouse Capital is a Russian holding company, whose current CEO is Roman Abramovich, a business associate of Oleg Deripaska. They are among the "New Money Oligarchs" whose rise to prominence and wealth was fostered by the Yeltsin administration....

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In 2003, Abramovich was named Person of the Year by Expert

Expert magazine

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, a Russian business magazine. He shared this title with Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is a Russian prisoner, considered by some - such as Amnesty International - to have been imprisoned for political reasons, jailed until 2016 and a former Russian oligarch and businessman...

. He is known outside Russia as the owner of Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea F.C.

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, an English Premier League football team, and for his wider involvement in European football

European football

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Abramovich is currently the ninth richest person in Russia and the 53rd richest person in the world, according to the 2011 Forbes

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list, with an estimated fortune of $13.4 billion.
Born to a Russian Jewish family, Abramovich was raised in his uncles' families, living first in Ukhta, in the Komi Republic, and then in Moscow.