These men, personally or through foundations or companies they control, have given to arts organizations in the West and sponsored events that celebrate Russian culture abroad. ImageLeonid MikhelsonChairman and major shareholder of NovatekGIFTS: Mr. Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation has the goal of promoting Russian contemporary art internationally. He has given to the New Museum, and the Tate Modern in Britain. His foundation helped to finance a 2017 show on Soviet art at the Art Institute of Chicago, which the museum says its own curators developed. WEALTH: Novatek, which has been under limited sanctions since 2014, is Russia’s largest nongovernment- owned natural gas supplier.

Source: New York Times October 06, 2019 16:41 UTC