A Day with a Russian Billionaire

To see how the .00001% lives, we met up with infamous Russian oligarch Sergey Veremeenko and spent quality time hog-hunting and helicopter-joyriding at his private estate outside Moscow.

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yeah
yeah
so with the fall of communism came a lot
of questions
chief among them when you're dividing up
decades worth of state-owned assets who
gets what
the short answer is a very lucky few in
the early nineties private citizens with
the best connections the powers that be
were essentially just gifted a whole
bunch of previously state controlled
assets
it's all best personified by the Russian
oligarchs a group of super powerful
businessmen who control a
disproportionate amount of the country's
well we came from Moscow to see how the
point 0 0 1 percent with it
we're about to go meet Sergei
we've heard it really enjoys them like
real ambulance lying over all this land
and you're like okay so when do we get
the circus ways they're like this is a
case like this entire fucking place
Sergei's he owns pretty much the entire
north of Russian Sergei ver mango is an
oligarch thought to have had connections
to both the Russian mob and the Putin
government who made his fortune through
cold metals and later banking his
26-year old wife Sofia join us for lunch
pretty soon as these others to which is
PI me just to just write need to look a
nice sear Americans continue to know
what I see it was renewed his room or
something
you blow thank you so much for your
hospitality
choose mostly to speak that name is
Alexis bodyguards behind him out thats
hanging out and have coffee child he
stood up me like six but i believe this
guy
all that is good news
and blew off the magical images or 11
and i miss work 2006
really wow I didn't know that changes
the dynamic of the table number 17 table
with the business world before
yeah that's amazing 2006 wow that was a
huge gamble so they thought like there
was cheating or something they were
saying right as we that was staying
there with the game saying you know what
type of crime her soon that's not the
case right circle
he was surprised as I am right but just
because he's a powerful guy people just
assume that the corruption where that
gets thrown around all the time and
that's a very Western perception of
Russia right is that the business and
finance is very closely tied
you know corruption and and and and that
how do you kind of stay on top of that i
just love now must sux cuz of Putin
corrupted the National better suited is
the attack nor master bathroom
yeah
after our caviar
Sergei took us to view his collection of
Russian religious are valued at over 200
million dollars
it's thought to be the largest in the
world so this is essentially 110
Sergei's collection of icons house here
at a private museum and his main house
just add one of the country also CS and
built the problems and it's stunning
but he'll spiritual attainment for score
he's the favorite holy icon for the
business minutes to create - why is this
the favorite of the businessman but
almost home to market the destruction
Woodman the sky and the Miley Cirus
Miley . the little pieces at all which
is horrible
satyam of the area of time boo dream
which is somehow
photo at the wall here media
Reese to you you're not what
watching August city should i be
concerned about the walls and barriers
that we don't shoot
ok ok all right well then I not give the
answers going
yeah
so in circles down time he's an avid
hunter
so much so that he has this entire state
of cabins out here where he hunts a wild
boar
among other things so he's brought us
out to traipse through the snow and hunt
some more but outfits are first and
foremost and by hunting
Sergei men will be stationed in the
heating hunting line while his bodyguard
scattered bags of corn into a lit area
that we fire into with a sniper rifle
not exactly sportsman like but a lot of
fun at the would you please come back
and
why not
congratulations let that
that is
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48 hours and drinking vodka sansu p.m.
but survey says it's time to go to the
sauna so I'm going to the sauna we've
got our hats gotta robes just probably
get him used here at the ceiling yet at
necessarily I don't know that means
probably not good way
yeah
yeah but they will buy it is friday
probably energy and I thought that part
but there's a judge papers to play my
music and now looking now we're going on
including signal like teal black warning
letters backwards
those are you saying in the United
States game feels good keeping how
things changed obviously you know over
the last two decades
Russia's undergone a dramatic changes
where do you see this going
I mean I said I don't know me and women
even set the example continues at said
the original around you can see the gene
business community of twists sure do it
just to drop the law
not going to do that Bannister learning
spanish actually see what is new in
right here
waters moving out of that really is some
starfish do get on with it
political champion who your parents are
really Stern is here
I got it
no one is happy young she's