Ukraine’s Ex-Comedian President Is Taking on Its Richest Man
- Rinat Akhmetov’s net worth has plunged 74% from its 2013 peak
- New president poses a threat to the tycoon’s energy monopoly
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Rinat Akhmetov doesn’t like to talk about his early business endeavors in the crime-ridden city of Donetsk in the 1990s, where a bomb killed his business partner during a soccer match.