
Ruslan Shostak
Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist
Ruslan Stanislavovych Shostak (Ukrainian: Руслан Станіславович Шостак; born March 20, 1973, Dnipro) is a Ukrainian businessman, founder and co-owner of the national retail chains EVA and VARUS. He is involved in the development of businesses in field such as real estate, car imports, and wholesaling. He is rated among the top 100 richest people in Ukraine.2
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Born Mar 20, 1973.1
About
In 2022, he founded and develops the Ruslan Shostak Charitable Foundation, which in 2025 became the subject of a journalistic investigation and a report by the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. According to the findings, employees of the foundation committed physical and psychological abuse against children and forced them to appear in the foundation's promotional videos.
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Companies
Early life and education
- 1999Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture3
Career
Occupation: entrepreneur.6
Personal life
Rating of the magazine Focus: 2014 — 99th place, $43 million; 2015 — 86th place, $50 million; 2016 — 68th place, $85 million; 2017 — 66th place, $98 million; 2018 — 42nd place, $195 million
Rating of Novoe Vremya: 2018 — 58th place, $107 million
Rating of Korrespondent magazine: 2018 — 45th place, $136 million
Rating of Forbes Ukraine: 2014 — 93rd place, $71 million; 2015 — 78th place, $43 million; 2016 — 69th place, $60 million 2021 — 87th place, $140 million
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Legal issues and controversies
In 2024–2025 the foundation's activities became the subject of public debate after a monitoring visit by representatives of the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights to facilities in Turkey where evacuated orphaned children were living. A monitoring-group report published to journalists described alleged violations of the children's rights, including restrictions on access to education and medical care, the use of physical and psychological pressure, prohibiting external organisations from visiting the children, and involving minors in the production of promotional videos and charitable materials. Following the published findings, law enforcement authorities opened a criminal investigation; the case was later closed due to insufficient evidence.
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- 1WikidataRuslan Shostak on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaRuslan Shostak on Wikipedia
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- 13Wikimedia CommonsRuslan Shostak photo by Mykola Shcherbyna Terwin, CC BY-SA 4.0