Alexey Fedorychev

“Business and politics are two opposite poles of life. There’s plenty of businesspeople that make headway in their field with the help or involvement of the authorities. It’s a personal choice, I am no judge by all means. That being said, I personally prefer keeping those two areas separated.”

“I consider myself a victim of a commercial raid attack. This type of attacks is common across the former USSR states, including Ukraine, and it basically is blackmail of successful public figures by means of bribing the law enforcement agencies. They use several fabricated cases to pressure me into giving up my high-value enterprise for nothing.”

“This money ($1m) my partners and I spent, first of all, on buying PCR-testing equipment and protective gear for medical personnel.”

“There was a time when the chemical industry was catatonic. The factories stood idle, there were no raw materials and operating capital for the fertilizers production. At that time, a rather inconspicuous meeting of the Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian businessmen and chemical enterprises’ heads took place in Budapest. We came to the conclusion that reviving the chemical industry is worth the sweat. Was our decision risky? Absolutely.”

“This applies to any finished goods production: the more stages of production are concentrated in the country, the more jobs and more profit remain in the country.”

“In sports, you’re either in the midst of it and work hard, or you’re on the sidelines, wasting your money for nothing.”

“Players need to see me, they need to know I’m here for them. That’s how I see my part in the team. We are a family, and we have to protect our family values.”

“If I ever get involved in basketball, I want to make something extraordinary.”

“I am by all means a traditional gentleman. I arrived here around 1992-1993, my address has been the same ever since. Everybody knows me here. My partners and I have invested significantly in Monaco over the past ten years. My parents are buried in the Principality, Monaco is my spiritual homeland.”