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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Michael Biesecker | AP

Russian oligarchs seek safe ports for their superyachts beyond U.S., E.U. sanctions over invasion of Ukraine

The massive superyacht Dilbar is as long as one and a half football fields and has two helipads, berths for more than 130 people and a 25-meter swimming pool.

Dilbar was launched in 2016 at a reported cost of more than $648 million. Five years later, its purported owner, the Kremlin-aligned Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, was dissatisfied with the vessel and sent it to a German shipyard last fall for a retrofit said to cost another couple of hundred million dollars.

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