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Alfa Group Chairman to Receive Prestigious Achievement Award in Washington with 20 other World Political, Business and Social Leaders
03 May 2003
Confirmed recipients of the 2003 Award, who will attend the Summit in Washington along with Mikhail Fridman, are:
- Dr. Lynne Cheney, Wife of US Vice President Richard Cheney H. E. Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile;
- H. E. Alvaro Uribe, President of Colombia;
- H. E. Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey;
- Leonard Lauder, Chairman and CEO, the Estee Lauder Co.;
- US Senator John McCain;
- US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton;
- US Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia.
Past Honorees who will attend the Summit include:
- Ehud Barak, Former Prime Minister of Israel;
- William Clinton, Former US President;
- Olivia de Havilland, Actress;
- Coretta Scott King, Wife of Martin Luther King;
- Colin Powell, US Secretary of State.
In accepting this invitation, Mr. Fridman noted that his inclusion in this highly prestigious event ": is a clear sign that the international community is developing respect and admiration for the role of the Russian private sector. While this is a great personal honor for me, it is more importantly, a great honor for Russia, and for the progress we have made in developing a promising economic and political future for ourselves and for our children." In addition to the honorees, the Summit is attended by 200 of the most outstanding graduate students from 40 countries.
More information about the Achievement Summit and the Golden Plate Award is available at: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/brochure/p2.html.
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Alfa-Bank Russia
Alfa-Bank, founded in 1990, has developed rapidly to become one of Russia's largest privately owned banks. It provides a full range of banking services — corporate banking, retail banking, investment banking, asset management and trade finance. The Bank has 229 branches over nine time zones in Russia, Kazakhstan and the Netherlands and subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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