Ruslan Shostak
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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

  • Date not recordedFounded Ruslan Shostak Charitable Foundation4
  • Date not recordedFounded eva5

Personal life

  • BornMar 20, 1973, Dnipro7
  • CitizenshipUkraine8

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Ruslan Shostak (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.