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Moscow is now home to more than one hundred billionaires.... one hundred!! Russia Today ran a story on a recent article published in the Russian edition of Forbes: in the past year the number of billies has almost doubled from 60 to 110, and the country's richest 100 people "saw their combined holdings gain 54 per cent over the year" - mind boggling. I can't even comprehend how much money that is... and especially here. A governor, Roman Abramovich, comes in third place with $US 24.3 billion, owner of the steel giant company Severstal, Aleksey Mordashov, comes in second with $US26.96 billion, and Oleg Deripaska, Chairman of the Board of an investment company, comes in first place with a whopping $US28.6 billion dollars. How long do you think it would take if someone gave you a dollar every second, to accumulate one billion dollars? It would take over 30 years. Reeeeeeeeeeeeeediculous. The world's top top TOP billionaire, as of February 11, 2008 is Warren Buffet - worth $US62 billion. The top top TOP female billionaire is Liliane Bettencourt (who comes 17th on the list of world billionaires), of L'Oreal who is worth $US22.9 billion. I'm sick of the word billion already - blech. Here are a few shots of Steve's team - Yaroslavl Yaroslavich... lookin' good...