Yelena baturina biography of barack

She is based in Austria. She was married to Yury Luzhkov , mayor of Moscow from to , until his death in In , she founded Inteco , an investment and construction company. Baturina is a Moscow native who began working as a design-technician at the Frezer industrial tool plant [ru] where her parents worked after graduating from high school.

Baturina met her future husband, Yury Luzhkov , in when they were both serving at Mosgorispolkom, a Soviet-era municipal commission. At the period of their co-working the relationships were purely professional. In one of her interviews Baturina remembers: "We never even thought about anything like that when we were working together, it all happened much later".

Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina is an international billionaire businesswoman and a philanthropist of Russian origin.

Baturina and Luzhkov married in The next year, he became mayor of Moscow. In , he was dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev amidst still unproven accusations of corruption and mismanagement voiced on state run television. After her husband's dismissal, Baturina moved to London. She explains the choice of the city by the fact that her two daughters decided to study in London.

In November , Luzhkov gave an interview to the Telegraph newspaper stating that the couple was sending their daughters to study in London to protect them from possible persecution from the Russian authorities. He also said that a house had been rented in the west of the city for them and that he and his wife intend to visit them regularly. Luzhkov also claimed that the Russian authorities were planning to break up Baturina's business empire and that the couple would fight the attempt: "We will not give up.