Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
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| August 2024 | Characterizes the Russian invasion of Ukraine as 'madness' and calls for it to be stopped, drawing strong criticism from the pro-Putin camp, including ultranationalist Alexander Dugin. |
| January 2023 | Former FBI counterintelligence head Charles McGonigal was charged with conspiring to provide services to Deripaska in violation of U.S. sanctions. |
| 2022 | Becomes one of the few Russian businessmen to publicly denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine, facing pressure from the Kremlin and having a major asset seized. |
| 2022 | Placed under U.S. sanctions related to the 2014 annexation of Crimea, and sanctioned by the British government over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| December 20 2022 | A Russian court ordered the seizure of a luxury hotel complex in Sochi worth $1 billion, potentially due to his criticism of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| November 30 2022 | Deripaska filed an appeal against the EU's decision to sanction him. |
| October 3 2022 | U.S. Supreme Court rejected Deripaska's appeal against sanctions. |
| September 29 2022 | United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York accused Deripaska of sanctions evasion through Gracetown Inc., involving illegal use of the U.S. financial system. |
| April 8 2022 | European Union added Deripaska to its sanctions list, freezing his assets and imposing a travel ban in all member states. |
| March 18 2022 | Australia added Deripaska to its sanctions list. |
| October 2021 | Russia granted Deripaska diplomatic status, enabling him to enter the United States with diplomatic immunity. |
| June 2021 | U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta dismissed Deripaska's lawsuit against the United States, ruling it lacked merit. |
| 2020 | Donated money to construct hospitals in Siberia during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| June 2019 | Forbes recognized Deripaska's Kuban land bank as the fourteenth largest in Russia, highlighting the significant scale of his agricultural enterprise. |
| March 2019 | Deripaska sued the United States, alleging overreach in imposing sanctions and claiming to be a victim in the FBI's Russia election interference probe. |
| March 2019 | GAZ Group requested $468 million in government support, citing potential 40% production cuts due to US sanctions placed on Deripaska. |
| February 2019 | Deripaska reduced his ownership stake in EN+ to below 50% to obtain sanctions relief. |
| January 2019 | U.S. Treasury lifted sanctions on companies formerly controlled by Deripaska, though sanctions on Deripaska himself remained in effect. |
| 2018 | Divorced from Polina Yumasheva after 17 years of marriage. |
| October 2018 | U.S. Treasury extended the deadline for full sanctions against Rusal and En+ Group until 12 December, pending review of Deripaska's proposed stake reduction. |
| May 2018 | Deripaska was required to return three private jets owned by Credit Suisse and Raiffeisen due to sanctions. |
| May 2018 | Deripaska stepped down from RUSAL's leadership, a day after seven board members and the chief executive resigned, as part of a deal with the US Treasury to remove U.S. sanctions from the company. |
| April 2018 | United States imposed sanctions on Deripaska and 23 other Russian tycoons and officials, accusing him of threatening business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and participating in extortion and racketeering. |
| March 2018 | Reported to have successfully obtained Cypriot citizenship. |
| March 2018 | Anastasia Vashukevich, a Belarusian escort, claimed to have audio recordings from August 2016 of Deripaska discussing the U.S. presidential election with three English-speakers. She attempted to offer these recordings to American authorities in exchange for asylum but was ultimately deported and arrested in a Russian airport. |
| February 2018 | Alexei Navalny published a video alleging Deripaska served as a middleman between the Russian government and Paul Manafort during the 2016 U.S. elections, involving a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko on a yacht near Norway. |
| 2017 | Personally initiated construction of the Centre for Epidemic and Microbiological Research and Treatment in Guinean Kindia province during the West African Ebola virus epidemic. |
| 2017 | Obtains Cypriot citizenship through the country's 'golden visa' program for major economic investors. |
| May 15 2017 | Deripaska filed a defamation and libel lawsuit against the Associated Press in U.S. District Court in D.C., challenging a report about his alleged contract with Paul Manafort to advance Russian government goals. The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2017 after Deripaska did not dispute any material facts. |
| 2014 | Launched JuniorSkills program through Volnoe Delo foundation, holding the first professional skills championship in Yekaterinburg. |
| February 2014 | Financed construction of makeshift kennels to house stray dogs abandoned after Sochi Olympic Village construction. |
| 2013 | Deripaska was awarded the 'Aluminium Industry Ambassador Award' in the Metal Bulletin Awards for Excellence, recognizing his significant influence in the global aluminum industry. |
| 2011 | Established Kuban Agroholding, a large 75,000-hectare agribusiness in the Krasnodar region, integrating multiple agricultural facilities including dairy farms, a pig breeding complex, grain storage and processing plants, a sugar factory, and a horse breeding farm. |
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