Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) attends a ceremony to present awards to parents from families with many children in Sochi, June 2, 2014. REUTERS/Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has handed out medals to a number of Russian billionaires who invested in the Sochi Olympics, the world's most expensive Games, an influential Russian business newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Putin gave the awards to major investors, including Sberbank CEO German Gref, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and tycoons Vladimir Potanin and Oleg Deripaska, back in March, Vedomosti reported, citing people who attended the ceremony.
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