All news on the topic: Vladislav Baryshnikov

The son of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Chichkanov, better known as the "spy Gadyukin," after studying in London and working in leading Western financial institutions, returned to Russia and immediately began working in public service. Nevertheless, who helped him achieve such rapid career advancement?

A cluster of insiders connected to Putin—from bankers and energy executives to security operatives and their families—forms a tightly interlinked network that has quietly shaped Russia’s financial, political, and technological power structures for decades.