Biography
Vladimir Pavlovich Peftiev was born on 1 July 1957 in the city ofBusiness
Peftiev was co-owner of BelTechExport, a Belarusian arms and military equipment exporter. As of 2012, Peftiev sold his holdings in BelTechExport and "completely ceased his participation in this group of companies". He owned BT Telecommunications, investment and construction agent. Peftiev also co-owned Sport-Pari, an interactive lotteries operator. Another co-owner of Sport-Pari through one of his companies isControversies, criticism
EU sanctions
In 2011, after controversial 2010 presidential election in Belarus, the...the Court held that anctions involving Belarusshould be annulled in so far as they concern Mr Peftiev. By virtue of that annulling judgment, the annulled acts, in so far as they concern Mr Peftiev, are deleted retroactively from the legal order and deemed never to have existed … and consequently Mr Peftiev is deemed never to have been listed.Situation with sanctions against Peftiev was referenced by professor Rudolf Dolzer in his interview on May 8, 2018 to Latvian newspaper “Dienas bizness”, in which he pointed out to the false information in the Internet that was used against Vladimir Peftiev, and namely baseless accusations regarding illegal incomes of Mr. Peftiev and illicit arms trade. This decision of European General Court was left unattended by mass media. Moreover, various sources continued to publish disproved information that originated before or during sanctions, instead of deleting it from their servers according to the court’s decision. This was described by Professor Rudolf Dolzer in his article «Weeding Out Fake Journalism» for 10th issue of Forbes Georgia:
Notwithstanding this clear decision, published in 2014, many concerned Internet sources, including respected data information providers, have decided, for whatever reason, to ignore the highest European Court, and still today, in 2018, have on their servers the outdated, discredited information. Another aspect of fake news has come out. A portion of the media ignored the judgment of the European Court of Justice in favor of Mr. Peftiev, even though the original fake news underlying the sanctions had been published in virtually all media. While fake news was considered newsworthy, its refutation by the court went unnoticed by the same media.
Offshores
Peftiev was mentioned in the Bahamas offshore leaks in 2016: allegedly, he held three companies in Bahamas through an intermediary. In 2020, an investigation by The Times and Transparency Networks found that Peftiev’s family owned 12 flats in London, with a total worth around £18 million. This portfolio was purchased through a number of offshore companies. Peftiev's family were not under sanctions and the purchases did not breach sanctions.Science and technology
Peftiev has contributed to research and development of a number of new technologies in various fields, with multiple patents issued to his name. In his work, Peftiev has cooperated with Belarusian scientists such as Vladimir Alexandrovich Katko and Sergey Vladimirovich Pletnev.Philanthropy
Sport
Peftiev actively sponsored various sports projects in Belarus. He managed and supported creation of tennis club responsible for training young Belarusian players, among which wereReligious heritage
Peftiev's contributions to the preservation of Orthodox Christian heritage have been recognised with awards from theHistory and the arts
Peftiev has sponsored and in some cases co-authored a number of art and historical publications, mainly in the historical series "В поисках утраченного" ("In Search of the Lost") by Belorussian historian Vladimir Lihodedov, volumes of which include: * "Tadeusz Kosciuszko In Old Postcards And Drawings" * "Belarus through the camera lens of the German soldier", on the period during WWI when part of modern Belarus was occupied by German troops * "Adam Mickiewicz", on the poet and patriot of Belarus, Poland and Lithuania * "Aleksander Nevsky", on the Orthodox churches built in European countries in honor of the Russian saint-prince * "State Bank of the Russian Empire in postcards, late 19th-early 20th centuries" * "Monuments dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812" Peftiev co-authored the following: * "1812: Chronicles of the Patriotic War in Old Postcards and Drawings", a commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Russian Campaign of Napoleon I and the Russian Patriotic War of 1812 * "Equal-to-the-Apostles Duke Vladimir", a work onThese striking, amusing and sometimes pungent aphorisms are so full of a certain kind of pragmatic wisdom that I am moved to quote Professor Higgins on Mr Alfred Doolittle: that the latter was "the most original moralist" that the former had encountered for many years. The hard truths of practical life are apt to wring from people of experience a view of how to navigate the maze of routes that lies between desire and success; it is not, invariably, a view for the faint-hearted or those persuaded more by Aristotle than Gordon Gekko; but it will certainly strike a chord with many who have ventured that maze, and will certainly provide a preparation – and for some a warning – to those planning or wishing to do so. No-one can fail to profit, therefore – in at least one relevant sense of that term – from these maxims, offered by one who has been all the way through that maze and back.Another book authored by Peftiev was published in 2020 and is titled "Quotations From Stories Yet To Be Written", with a foreword by a British author Adam Roberts. In 2012, an exhibition titled "2012. War and Peace" featuring Peftiev's private historic and art collection was opened in Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.
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