MiembroNik_Krasno

Sobre mí

I was born in Kiev, then USSR in the seventies. At the age of 17, seeing the enormous Soviet Empire crumbling, I immigrated to Israel, where became a lawyer at the age of 23.
Returning to now independent Ukraine in the late nineties as an Israeli citizen, I established with partners an international law firm and managed it during its first years. As a primarily commercial lawyer I counselled a wide range of multinational sovereign, corporate and individual clients, engaged in diverse areas and industries.
Simultaneously with promoting the law office, I worked for an international business group and took part in different projects primarily in real estate as well as in privatisation, defence, medicine and telecommunication in Ukraine and some other countries. I had been sharing my time between family in Israel and work and business mostly in former USSR countries, virtually living on the plane between Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Witnessing the meteoric rise under new capitalist rules of a small number of individuals from modest Soviet citizens to mighty billionaires, who often neglected any rules or laws, I felt compelled to expose to the world the unique phenomena taking place in that less familiar part of the globe and therefore started writing 'Oligarch series'.
The fictional plot combines real and imaginary events with some 'lawyers' folklore' and known and made up corruption and criminal schemes customary in Ukraine and other former USSR republics. I also portray some cornerstone events in the history of Ukraine and share insight into the glorious and simultaneously tragic events of 2013 uprising resulting in ousting of the president, ensuing Russian aggression in Crimea and tensions and war in the Eastern regions of Ukraine. The imaginary characters are designed to reflect real behaviour and mentality and provide decent entertainment for the readers.
People are always curious how someone made countless fortunes. Many watched with interest movies about Facebook's founder or that of Apple's. Their stories may just look trivial in comparison with those of their Eastern peers....
After selling my share in the law office, I currently reside and work as an independent legal practitioner and an author in Israel.

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Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? por Karen Dawisha

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