{"id":102294,"date":"2026-01-30T06:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/putins-friend-buys-domodedovo-airport-at-half-price\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:13:58","slug":"putins-friend-buys-domodedovo-airport-at-half-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/en\/putins-friend-buys-domodedovo-airport-at-half-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s friend buys Domodedovo airport at half price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"341\" data-end=\"640\"><strong>One of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s closest friends, billionaire Arkadi Rotenberg, has become the owner of &#8220;Domodedovo&#8221; airport \u2014 the largest private air gateway in Russia, which authorities confiscated last year from former owner Dmitri Kamenski and nationalized.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"1112\">According to information published by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">RBC<\/span><\/span>, as a result of the auction on January 29, Domodedovo airport was sold to the company OOO &#8220;Perspectiva&#8221; \u2014 a subsidiary 100% owned by the international airport <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sheremetyevo Airport<\/span><\/span>. Sheremetyevo, in turn, is 30% state-owned and 66% owned by the Cypriot trust TPS Avia Holding (re-registered in 2022 in the Russian offshore on Russki Island).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1114\" data-end=\"1251\">Rotenberg owns 34% of the trust&#8217;s shares, and the rest is divided between the families of Alexandr Ponomarenko and Alexandr Skorobogatko.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1253\" data-end=\"1647\">The final price of the transaction was 66.132 billion rubles (approx. 720 million \u20ac), which is exactly half of the starting price of the auction of 132 billion rubles (approx. 1.44 billion \u20ac). The only other participant in the auction, apart from the company related to Rotenberg, was a structure of the airport <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Vnukovo Airport<\/span><\/span>, owned by businessman Vitali Vantcev.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1253\" data-end=\"1647\">Details, <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.themoscowtimes.com\/2026\/01\/29\/natsionalizirovannii-aeroport-domodedovo-prodali-zapoltseni-odnomu-izblizhaishih-druzei-putina-a185824\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s closest friends, billionaire Arkadi Rotenberg, has become the owner of &#8220;Domodedovo&#8221; airport \u2014 the largest private air gateway in Russia, which authorities confiscated last year from former owner Dmitri Kamenski and nationalized. 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