If I ever get involved in basketball, I want to make something extraordinary. - Alexei Fedorychev

Business and politics are two opposite poles of life. There’s plenty of businesspeople that make headway in their field with the help or involvement of the authorities. It’s a personal choice, I am no judge by all means. That being said, I personally prefer keeping those two areas separated.

There was a time when the chemical industry was catatonic. The factories stood idle, there were no raw materials and operating capital for the fertilizers production. At that time, a rather inconspicuous meeting of the Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian businessmen and chemical enterprises’ heads took place in Budapest. We came to the conclusion that reviving the chemical industry is worth the sweat. Was our decision risky? Absolutely.

This money ($1m) my partners and I spent, first of all, on buying PCR-testing equipment and protective gear for medical personnel.