The Israeli Interior Ministry has ruled that Africans from the Abayudaya community in Uganda who have converted to Judaism are not actually Jews and have no “right of return” to the Jewish ethnostate—unlike the racially-based claim of “Russian” oligarch Roman Abramovich who has just been granted citizenship of that state. According to a report in the Israeli Haartez newspaper, the Israeli... 

Len Blavatnik As the EU tries to battle its way out of financial crisis, the British mega rich continue to gain capital, according to the Sunday Times’ Rich List. It revealed that during the past 10 years the top one percent’s fortunes more than doubled in the UK. The combined assets owned by the 1,000 wealthiest individuals in the UK have hit a new high of £547 billion ($831 billion), up from... 

According to British media, Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who died on Saturday, March 23rd, was suffering from clinical depression. It was said that the businessman gave way to despair after the British court dismissed his five-billion-dollar claim against another Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. After the trial, Berezovsky had to pay $100 million for legal services. In connection with the... 

Greece is raising cash by selling off an area of state-owned land on Mykonos for luxury tourism. Desperate attempt to repay debts also driven by inability to find funds to develop infrastructure on islands. There’s little that shouts “seriously rich” as much as a little island in the sun to call your own. For Sir Richard Branson it is Neckar in the Caribbean, the billionaire Barclay...