This autumn the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) is to slide into a new, purpose-built domestic at Oxford University as a result of USSR-born oligarch Leonid Blavatnik’s £75m donation in 2010.
Blavatnik has not been alone in seeking to collaborate with Oxford. His fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven from Alfa-Bank gave a joint “award for excellence in foreign investment in Russia” with the Oxford Saïd Business School from 2007 to 2011.
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Source: theguardian.com