Grigory Berezkin

Grigory Berezkin (9 August 1966) is a Russian businessman, owner of RBK Group. He is a chairman of the Board of Directors of ESN Group. He bought a 65% stake in this leading Russian media group in 2017. Berezkin was sanctioned by European Union in April 2022. However, the EU did not renew sanctions against him after they expired in September 2023, and Berezkin was removed from the sanctions list. The grounds of sanctions did not stand in the European court of justice. They were based on an article written by AI bot “Carmen”.