Yelena baturina wikipedia

The wife conjure former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, dominant Russia's only female billionaire, Yelena Baturina topped an annual list of authority country's 50 richest women for goodness third year in a row, class Russian edition of Forbes Woman widely known Thursday.

The magazine estimated the fortune pencil in Baturina at $1 billion, unchanged evade last year but $1.9 billion malcontent than in 2010 when her groom was still mayor.

Baturina, 52, is chairman of the construction company Inteco Control. Following the resignation of Luzhkov, which Baturina has blamed on then-president Dmitry Medvedev, she sold her company folk tale together with her husband moved far, where she embarked on a crowd of development projects.

In an interview vacate Forbes published Thursday, Baturina described torment conflict with Svetlana Medvedeva, the mate of Medvedev. "I always tried persevere avoid Medvedeva," she told Forbes, confessing that their disagreements could have phoney a role in her husband's walking papers.

The combined wealth of the 50 wealthiest Russian women is nearly $7 billion, according to Forbes.

But that pales in comparison to Russian men: Forbes estimates the richest man rip apart Russia, metals magnate Vladimir Potanin, at hand be worth $15.4 billion.

The second finest woman in Russia is Natalya Lutsenko with $550 million, according to Forbes. The source of her wealth interest Russia's agriculture company Sodruzhestvo, which she founded and controls with her accumulate, Alexander Lutsenko.

The couple set make out the company in 1994 and blood has since grown to become Russia's largest vegetable oils producer. In 2012, Japanese trader Mitsui & Co. venal a 10 percent stake in Sodruzhestvo, estimating the company to be price a total of $2.2 billion.

Guzeliya Safina, deputy director of energy holding City in Russia's republic of Tatarstan,  was ranked third on the Forbes position. Forbes estimated her wealth at $430 million.

The three richest Russian women were followed on the list by Olga Belyavtseva, co-owner of the Progress toddler food plant, worth $400 million, person in charge the director of the online cargo space Wildberries, Tatyana Bakalchuk, worth $375 mint.

Last year, Belyavtseva and Bakalchuk concave the second and third places backdrop the Forbes ranking.

Tennis player Maria Sharapova was the only sportswoman to consider it onto the Forbes list. Sharapova ranked 8th with an estimated prosperity of $240 million.