Designed by Philippe Starck, the “A” has quickly become the most loved and loathed ship on the sea. WSJ’s Robert Frank takes an exclusive tour of Andrey Melnichenko’s 394-foot mega-yacht.
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Most 22-year-olds can’t even imagine having a foot on the property ladder – let alone one that costs $88million.
But having a Russian billionaire father usually helps, as demonstrated by Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of former fertiliser magnate Dmitry Rybolovlev. Miss Rybolovleva is studying at an undisclosed U.S. university and will live in the apartment – which boasts ten rooms and a wraparound terrace – when she is in New York…
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Most 22-year-olds can’t even imagine having a foot on the property ladder – let alone one that costs $88million.
But having a Russian billionaire father usually helps, as demonstrated by Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of former fertiliser magnate Dmitry Rybolovlev.
Miss Rybolovleva is studying at an undisclosed U.S. university and will live in the apartment – which boasts ten rooms and a wraparound terrace – when she is in New York.
The sale of the apartment, which was reported yesterday by Forbe’s magazine, broke records for an individual transaction in a city renowned for pricey property.
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In July 2011 Petra Ecclestone purchased The Manor, in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, for $85 million, with $82.4 million borrowed from her mother. It had been on the market for two years with an asking price of $150 million, making it the most expensive residential real estate listing in the US.
The 57,000 square feet (5,300 m2) mansion was the former home of Aaron and Candy Spelling, and is the largest residence in Los Angeles County.
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Katia Verber is running late. That’s not unusual for an It girl in Moscow, where the Soviet-built streets are choked with traffic. Not helping matters is that the 24-year-old socialite’s It car — her mother’s chauffeured gold Bentley — has just broken down. “I’m so stressed!” sighs the feathery voice on the other end of the line when I call to check in. “I’ll be there in 20!”
Two-and-a-half hours later, Katia flies into the Starbucks on the storied Old Arbat Street. I can’t help but ask: If you shell out $250,000 for a car, it should work, right? “Oh, no. No, no, no,” she says in crisp English, with the patience of a kindergarten teacher. “Bentleys break down all the time.”
Katia, a dark-haired heiress with piercing eyes and perfect teeth, is like one of the Hilton sisters here. She’s the daughter of Alla Verber, who helps run Russia’s biggest luxury retailer, Mercury, which brought Dolce, Gucci, and Prada to Russia in the mid-1990s.
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Russia’s Richest Women
Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina (Еле́на Никола́евна Бату́рина) (born 8 March 1963) is a Russian oligarch, Russia’s richest woman and the only Russian woman worth more than a billion dollars. She founded a major investment and construction company Inteco.
She currently owns a hotel chain and is the founder of BE OPEN, a cultural and philanthropic foundation. She is the 1075th richest person in the world currently, after tumbling from a much higher wealth.
BUDVA, Montenegro — The global financial crisis has buffeted the balance sheets of Russia’s legion of billionaires. But suitcases of cash and Russian-owned luxury yachts keep arriving in this idyllic town on the Adriatic, helping Montenegro earn the nickname Moscow-on-the-Sea.
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The FACTS: End of the World 2012 phenomenon
Guatemalan Maya natives kneel in front of a temple at the Tikal archaeological site on December 20, 2012. The exquisite site of Mayan ruins began hosting winter solstice ceremonies on Thursday as the region’s indigenous people marked the end of an era.
The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on 21 December 2012 .
This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae have been proposed as pertaining to this date, though none has been accepted by mainstream scholarship.
A New Age interpretation of this transition is that the date marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 21 December 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era.
Others suggest that the date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world include the arrival of the next solar maximum, an interaction between Earth and the black hole at the center of the galaxy, or Earth’s collision with a planet called Nibiru.
Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic events occurring in 2012. Professional Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresents Maya history and culture, While astronomers have rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience,stating that they conflict with simple astronomical observations.
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Fiscal cliff would drive the U.S. economy back into recession before end of 2013, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office said. Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that the most harmful consequences of the fiscal cliff, a fully armed and operational fiscal cliff would cost us 3.4 million jobs.
Late last week, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner began what promises to be two months of political posturing — and much less likely, meaningful negotiation — geared towards avoiding the impending “fiscal cliff.”
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