A cargo airline company has flown more than 3,000 breeding pigs to China from France this year An outbreak of African swine fever decimated China’s hog herds

You wouldn’t know that Alexander Fridman is the child of Russia’s 11th-richest person. He rents a two-room flat on the outskirts of Moscow for $500 a month and uses the subway to get to work. “I eat, live, sleep, dress in everything that I earned myself,” said Fridman, 19, whose father, Mikhail Fridman, has a $13.7 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The junior Fridman returned to Moscow last year after graduating from a high school near London. Five months ago, he...

'I eat, live, sleep, dress in everything that I earned myself,' said Alexander Fridman, son of Russia’s 11th-richest person While he’s striking out on his own without interference from his father, Alexander is certainly benefiting from his connections

The junior Fridman returned to Moscow last year after graduating from a high school near London. You wouldn’t know that Alexander Fridman is the child of Russia’s 11th-richest person. He rents a two-room flat on the outskirts of Moscow for $500 a month and uses the subway to get to work. “I eat, live, sleep, dress in everything that I earned myself,” said Fridman, 19, whose father, Mikhail Fridman, has a $13.7 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The junior Fridman...

Sergey Kolesnikov and Igor Rybakov spent their summers in the early 1990s fixing rooftops around Moscow, a job that paid them about $500 a month. The work gave the aspiring scientists, who were roommates at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia’s top research university, a chance to become entrepreneurs after the fall of the Soviet Union. “We earned two degrees, one in physics and one in roofing,” Kolesnikov said in an interview at his central Moscow office. The roofing...