Male, 47, married with two children and a mistress, owns property in Moscow, London and the south of France, called Viktor or Boris, runs some kind of business exploiting natural resources, worth a cool $4bn (£2.3bn): that, according to the Russian edition of Forbes magazine published yesterday, is the typical profile of one of Russia’s growing number of super-rich oligarchs.
And, saysForbes, which has just published the first rich list of Russians, the country that gave the world Communism almost 90 years ago is turning out millionaires and billionaires at a rate that makes the United Kingdom and the United States look like they are the states which need a lesson in capitalism.In February, when Forbes last checked, Russia had 25 billionaires; three months later it has 36. The Government today issued orders to councils across London on how to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in the event of a Doomsday strike by terrorists. “He was immensely looking forward to it.”Mr Phillips had risen through the club, starting his career with the mini rugby side before moving on to the junior, youth and then senior sides. “He was always a dedicated player,” the treasurer said.The club is planning to raise funds for the officer’s family as a tribute to him.. A ninth body was recovered today from the rubble of a Glasgow plastics factory explosion, police said. Pencoed treasurer Steve Phillips, who is no relation, said last night: “We are all devastated. This is going to leave a huge hole in our club.”The officer had been a team captain for several seasons, he said, and despite leaving the side was still a regular visitor to the clubhouse.”He was in the club last Sunday telling everybody all the details of his trip,” Mr Phillips said.

But the fatality was expected to be ruled an accident, he said. Mr Phillips, who played in the centre for the South Wales Police XV, was found at 8am local time.Last night his wife, who lives in the family home in Pencoed, near Bridgend, south Wales, said: “Rhydian was a wonderful husband and father to our two children He was a dedicated officer who loved his job. He also loved his sport, and we all love him and we will all miss him dearly.”A spokesman for South Wales Police said: “Steps are being taken to fly Rhydian’s body back to the UK as soon as possible and a number of his closest colleagues on the tour will return with him.”Our deepest thoughts and sympathies are with his family and friends at this tragic time and we are doing everything possible to support them.”Mr Phillips played for Pencoed RFC until the end of last season, when he left to play for South Wales Police. But he died yesterday morning after falling from the 22nd floor of the Milford Plaza Hotel in midtown Manhattan.A South Wales Police spokesman said his wife, Justine, and two young children have been informed of the death and police in New York are investigating. A British police officer on a rugby tour to New York died yesterday after falling about 200 feet from a hotel window. Guests will have to bring their own towels and toiletries and there will be an extra charge to have the room serviced during the day.With all the space taken up by rooms, there will be no restaurant or reception, although a live-in concierge will handle security and emergencies.Early bookers get the best prices and the average price per room will be £30 – the break-even rate – and £50 or £60 for the last beds..

Guests will get a raised double futon with clean sheets and a duvet, a shower, wash-basin with a mirror, a rack for hanging clothes and a lavatory complete with toilet paper.Telephones and televisions will not be included, nor will there be any pictures on the wall or carpet on the floor. We are convinced there is a gap in the market for branded budget hotels where the consumer can be guaranteed of safety and a clean bed, though not much more.”Developers for the group are scouring city centres for hotels of a dozen rooms or so which will be converted to 25 to 30 units to be run under a franchise system.Each room will be built of moulded plastic and will measure 9ft by 10ft, some windowless. Further hotels are planned in city centres across Britain with plans to extend the concept to New York, Paris and Barcelona.The prototype room in a warehouse in Romford, Essex, is being shown to fitters with a brief to produce the finished article at a budget of £10,000 per room.EasyGroup said the idea is a hybrid version of low-cost motels in France such as Formule 1 and Etape and the Japanese “capsule hotels”.James Rothnie, a spokesman for easyGroup, said: “This is a challenge to the B&Bs It is for anyone who does not travel on a corporate card. There is no television or mini-bar and barely space to swing a cat but the bijou rooms in a chain of hotels launched yesterday are expected to appeal to devotees of “no frills” living.
The entrepreneurs behind easyJet, a pioneer of low-cost air travel and car hire, are applying the same concept to city centre hotels, and they will charge as little as £5 for an overnight stay in London.Backpackers, self-employed business people and families venturing into the city for a night at the theatre are all in the target market.EasyGroup are about to embark on the refurbishment of a four-storey Georgian terrace in Kensington, west London, as the first in the chain.

She stayed in her beloved Manhattan, dying from a stroke and heart attack at a retirement home two weeks before the 11 September attacks.. Increasingly in need of medical attention for her bad back and apparently reluctant to curb her high living, the money disappeared.Robert Scull died in 1986 aged 70, but his former wife continued to do legal battle with his estate. This amounted to $2.5m-worth of paintings and $1m in cash generated since the 1973 sale.The warring parties met at the warehouse to split the collection by the flip of a coin.She left with Jasper Johns’ 1959 Out the Window, which she later sold for $3.63m – then the highest price paid for a living artist. “When you are not giving parties and not having the big shots of the world over, you are not invited. And if your name is not in the columns, you fade away from the social scene,” she said.A 10-year legal wrangle with her former husband in which she maintained that she had played an equal part in choosing the collection ended in 1985, when a state supreme court awarded her 35 per cent of the Sculls’ art holdings.