The Sunday Interview: Yelena Baturina

Russia's richest woman, Yelena Baturina, who snapped up Dublin's Morrison Hotel last year, says she believes Ireland is over the worst. Interview: Tom McGurk.

Yelena Baturina: "Russia is my motherland. I miss it all the time." Photo: Getty

Yelena Baturina

**Age:** 50

**Home:** London

**Family:** married to Yuri Luzhkov, former mayor of Moscow, with two daughters, Olga and Yelena

**Education:** Bachelor of Arts from Moscow Institute of Management

**Hobbies:** horse riding - Baturina is a former president of the Equestrian Federation of Russia

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"Can you remember when you were poor?" I ask Yelena Baturina, the 50-year-old billionaire widely reported to be Russia's richest woman. Her translator repeats my question, but ...