"“We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.” "


Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009


""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."


Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009

Monday, December 05, 2005

Maria Sharapova is highest earning Russian sport star

18-year-old Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova tops the list of Russia’s wealthiest athletes according to Finance magazine today. Maria’s income in 2005 was said to be US$14.5 million.

On top of prize money she has a host advertising contracts and mobile phone tunes to boost here income.

2nd = Basketball player Andrey Kirilenko of the Utah Jazz, US$10.97 million
3rd = Hockey player Alexei Yashin of the New York Islanders,US $7.6

6 of the other 7 in the top ten were ice hockeyists palying in North America: Nikolay Khabibulin of the Chicago Blackhawks with $6.75 million, Ilya Kovalchuk of Atlanta Thrashers with $6.5 million, Sergey Fyodorov of Columbus Blue Jackets with $6.08 million, Alexei Kovalyov of Montreal Canadiens with $4.5 million, Alexei Zhamnov of Boston Bruins with $4.1 million and Sergey Zubkov of Dallas Stars with $4 million.

Recent blogs on same topic here

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