Bermuda is the oldest British Overseas Territory,and the oldest self-governing British Overseas Territory,and has a great degree of internal autonomy through authority and roles of governance delegated to it by the national Government. Its parliament held its first session in 1620,making it the third-oldest continuous parliament in the world. As part of the British realm,King Charles III is head of state and is represented in Bermuda by a Governor,whom he appoints on the advice of the British Government. The Governor has special responsibilities in four areas:external affairs,defence,internal security,and policing.
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Ukrainian-born,Russian–Israeli tycoon. He is one of the co-founders of Alfa-Group,a multinational Russian conglomerate. According to Forbes,he was the second-richest Russian as of 2013,moving down to ninth-richest Russian in 2023. In May 2017,he was also ranked as Russia's most important businessman by bne IntelliNews. In February 2024,Fridman had a net worth of $13.1 billion,according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Alfa Group Consortium is Russian international privately owned investment groups,with interests in oil and gas,commercial and investment banking,asset management,insurance,retail trade,telecommunications,water utilities and special situation investments.
The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) is one of the three political parties in Bermuda. At the 18 July 2017 general election,the party won 24 of the 36 seats in the Bermudian House of Assembly to become the governing party. The party was founded in 1963,the first political party in Bermuda,and the oldest still active. It formed government from 1998 to 2012,and again since 2017.
Jeffrey Peter Galmond is a Danish Supreme Court lawyer and businessman. He is the owner of the law firm J. P. Galmond &Co. He owned large portions of the holding companies that owned the Russian mobile telecommunications operator Megafon. One of these portions was contested. Galmond had been accused of not being the true owner of the Russian assets,but of acting as a front to Russian minister of telecommunications Leonid Reiman. These claims were vigorously denied by Galmond.
Leonid Dodojonovich Reiman is a Russian businessman and government official,former Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
Ewart Frederick Brown Jr. is a politician and physician who served as the ninth Premier of Bermuda and leader of the country's Progressive Labour Party (PLP) from 2006 to 2010. He represented Warwick South Central as a Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2010.
Altimo is the telecommunications investment arm of Russia's Alfa Group Consortium,controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman. Altimo investee companies operate in Russia,Ukraine,Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan,Bangladesh,Georgia,Turkey;it holds stakes in VimpelCom,MegaFon,Kyivstar,and Turkcell. Together,Altimo's investee companies have more than 150 million mobile phone subscribers.. Altimo Holdings &Investments Ltd. is a British Virgin Islands company. A majority of its shares are owned by CTF Holdings,a Gibraltar limited liability company,whose sole shareholder is Crown Finance Foundation,a Liechtenstein foundation.
Dame Lois Marie Browne-Evans DBE JP was a lawyer and political figure in Bermuda. She led the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) in opposition before being appointed Bermuda's first female Attorney-General. She first gained recognition in 1953 as Bermuda's first female barrister. Browne-Evans died of a suspected stroke on 29 May 2007,at age 79.
Leonid Borisovich Rozhetskin was a financier and lawyer who went missing under suspicious circumstances after disappearing from his village in Jūrmala,Latvia. In 2013,remains found nearby the year before were confirmed to be Rozhetskin's.
Richard R. Burt is an American businessman and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Germany and was a chief negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Prior to his diplomatic career,Burt worked as director of a non-governmental organization and from 1977 to 1980 was a national security correspondent for The New York Times.
Cyril "C." Eugene Cox was a Bermudian politician. He served as a Bermuda Progressive Labour Party (PLP) MP from Sandys North,as Minister of Finance,and as Deputy Premier. He was the father of Paula Cox,Jeremy Cox,and Robert Cox. Cox first won a seat in Parliament between 1976 and 1980 in Sandys North. Cox was elected Deputy Leader in 1996,and Minister of Finance on 10 November 1998.
Derrick V. Burgess is a Bermudian politician,former labour union leader and hotel executive. The Hon. Derrick V. Burgess was elected Deputy Leader of the Progressive Labour Party and Deputy Premier of Bermuda on 28 October 2010,immediately following the election of the Hon. Paula Cox,JP,MP as Premier of Bermuda. Four days later,he was named Minister of Public Works.
The One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) is one of two political parties in Bermuda with elected members of the Bermuda's legislative assembly. It was created in May 2011 by the merger of most members of Bermuda's two non-Labour parties,the United Bermuda Party and the Bermuda Democratic Alliance. It won the 2012 election and governed until 2017. Since then,it has been the official opposition in Bermuda's House of Assembly.
General elections were held in Bermuda on 17 December 2012 to elect all 36 members of the House of Assembly. The result was a victory for the One Bermuda Alliance,led by Craig Cannonier,which won 19 seats in the House of Assembly. The incumbent Progressive Labour Party (PLP) lost five seats and government,and Premier Paula Cox lost her Devonshire North West seat,and resigned as leader of the PLP the next day,with Derrick Burgess becoming Acting Party Leader. Marc Bean became PLP leader on 22 December 2012.
Craig Cannonier is a Bermudian politician,who served as Premier of Bermuda from 18 December 2012 until his resignation on 19 May 2014. He has also served as the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance since 10 September 2011.
Marc A. Bean is a Bermudian politician,and the former Leader of the Opposition. Bean was a Member of Bermuda's Parliament since winning a by-election in 2010,securing the seat of Warwick South Central for the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party (PLP). Previously,Bean had served in the Bermuda Senate. While in government,Bean held various ministerial and junior ministerial portfolios,including Environment,Planning and Infrastructure Strategy. In September 2020,he announced that he was forming a new political party,the Free Democratic Movement,to contest the 2020 Bermudian general election.
Same-sex marriage is currently not recognised nor performed in Bermuda,a British Overseas Territory,but it was legal between 2017 and 2022. However,marriages performed during that period remain valid.
Edward David Burt is the Premier of Bermuda and leader of the Progressive Labour Party (PLP). Burt is Bermuda's youngest ever premier,having taken office at the age of 38.
Gloria Juanita McPhee OBE was a Bermudian politician who served as a member of the House of Assembly from 1968 to 1980,representing the United Bermuda Party (UBP). She was a government minister from 1968 to 1977,the first woman appointed to the ministry.
