{"id":40266,"date":"2021-04-06T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40266"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:22:34","slug":"pavel-durov-enters-forbes-top-ten-richest-russian-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/pavel-durov-enters-forbes-top-ten-richest-russian-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Durov enters Forbes&#8217; top ten richest Russian entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov has topped the list of the wealthiest businessmen in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0440\u0435\u0439\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0435 \u043c\u0438\u043b\u043b\u0438\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0432 Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Durov&#8217;s fortune in 2021 was estimated at $17.2 billion, up by $13.8 billion over the year.<\/p>\n<p>In Forbes&#8217; global ranking, the Telegram founder is listed as a representative of the UAE and sits at 112th. Meanwhile, Durov has entered the list of Russia&#8217;s wealthiest businessmen in the Russian edition of the publication. There he ranks ninth.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Forbes compiled <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/forbes-names-11-crypto-billionaires\">a list of the wealthiest figures in the cryptocurrency industry<\/a> based on 2020 results. It was led by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov topped Forbes&#8217; billionaires ranking of the wealthiest businessmen in the United Arab Emirates and also appeared on the Russian edition&#8217;s list of Russia&#8217;s wealthiest businessmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,1423],"class_list":["post-40266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-forbes","tag-pavel-durov"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40268,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40266\/revisions\/40268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}