V ictor Linnik, along with his twin brother Alexander, is a Russian billionaire who founded and controls Miratorg, one of Russia's largest and most successful private agricultural conglomerates. The brothers founded the company in the 1990s, initially as a food import business. They have since built it into a massive, vertically integrated "farm-to-fork" enterprise with a dominant position in the Russian meat market.
Miratorg is the largest producer of pork and beef in Russia, with a massive portfolio of its own farms, feedlots, and processing plants. The company's growth has been fueled by the Russian government's focus on import substitution and food self-sufficiency, which has provided significant support to domestic agricultural producers. The brothers' ownership of this massive, privately held agribusiness is the source of their billion-dollar fortunes. They are major and influential figures in the Russian agricultural industry.
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