Look at the Nets and the deal that allowed Mikhail Prokhorov to buy the team.
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Unlike Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a jailed tycoon, Mr Prokhorov has done well over the past decade.
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Russian industrialist Mikhail Prokhorov is trying to buy his way into the brotherhood of basketball billionaires.
So did Nets owner Mikhael Prokhorov, as well as Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz.
Whether Prokhorov himself will come out strongly in favor of Medvedev remains to be seen.
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If Prokhorov both craves and deflects attention, his magazine suffers from a different sort of tension.
Prokhorov stuck to water, saying he had a 4 a.m. appointment with a treadmill.
Yet if Mr Prokhorov manages to sell his stake in Norilsk, it will strengthen property rights.
The main victim was Mikhail Prokhorov, a business tycoon and the only fresh face in the election.
Prokhorov's most notable transaction would probably be the sale of his 25% stake in Norilsk Nickel to Deripaska.
Dashing Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is about to become the majority owner of the New Jersey Nets.
This is not to say that Prokhorov is destined to follow in the footsteps of his fellow oligarch.
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Many middle-class Muscovites who had attended earlier rallies voted for Mr Prokhorov, who turned up at the protest.
Another creditor and shareholder of Rusal is Russia's richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov.
Finally, there's billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, whose website was hacked and pasted with pro-Putin pronouncements just before he announced his candidacy.
Mr Putin instead suggested that Mr Prokhorov might join his incoming government, an option the tycoon had earlier ruled out.
In 2007, Prokhorov was arrested on suspicion of trafficking prostitutes (and released without charge) in the French ski town of Courchevel.
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Before the opening tip, Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov, dressed sleekly in a black blazer, took a microphone and addressed the crowd.
Jay-Z could easily sell his stake back to billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov or trade it for more equity in the arena itself.
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Mr Prokhorov meant it to show that he is serious about power.
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The Nets were just 14-14 after a December slump, prompting Prokhorov, their billionaire Russian owner, to cut short a winter vacation and fire Johnson.
"In my perception, the raw materials market was overvalued -- we had a strategy to leave and to diversify, " Prokhorov said of his decision.
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Russian billionaire and Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov was officially registered as a Russian presidential candidate on Wednesday, after collecting the required 2 million signatures.
As the Wall Street Journal reported today, Prokhorov and Right-Cause seem to have a surprisingly left-leaning bent for a party that is ostensibly pro-business.
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There's still time to make it happen, Jay-Z and Mikhail Prokhorov.
Notes: Though Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is in town from Russia for this game and Friday, Carlesimo said they had no discussions planned about his job status.
"Billy has been a great asset to the Nets organization over the last three years", Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov said in a statement announcing the extension on Friday.
Prokhorov managed to preserve his wealth better than many of his compatriots through a series of well-timed asset sales at the height of the market in April 2008.
The prime minister's job, Mr Prokhorov says, would be nice.
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Prokhorov entered politics only recently, according to the website Russiapedia.
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