Founder of the VimpelCom company and the Dynasty Foundation, founder of the Enlightener award… Dmitry Zimin, a man whose name is already inscribed in the history of our country.
Dmitry Zimin was a successful engineer who worked for 35 years at the Radio Engineering Institute. Then he created the Vimpelcom company. Then he sold it, earning a lot (they say hundreds of millions of dollars) of money. And almost the entire amount was invested in the Dynasty fund. This foundation has been paying scholarships and grants for 14 years to hundreds of talented students and scientists who will be welcome abroad and who are still here. It is with the money of Dmitry Zimin that the Enlightener Prize is awarded and the best popular science books are published. But this money is abroad (unlike, by the way, 82-year-old Zimin, who lives very modestly in Russia). On this basis, on May 25, the Dynasty Foundation was included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of “foreign agents”. We don’t know how this story will end. But we are absolutely sure that Dmitry Zimin has already entered his name in the history of Russia. Which would be much more glorious if our authorities, with enviable persistence, did not add the best people of the country to the “black lists”.