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Leonard Blavatnik left the Soviet Union, studied in New York, and built Access Industries as a holding company with a long appetite. Warner Music was the cultural jewel; energy and chemicals paid many of the bills.
Knighthood and the Blavatnik Awards made the philanthropy public. The career is diaspora capitalism at full scale.
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Hero photograph: Mark Neyman, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
