Russian mogul Roustam Tariko, who owns Russian Standard Bank and Russian Standard Vodka, paid $25.5. million for a Star Island home, and he’s not alone among wealthy Russians looking to purchase such homes in Miami. “In Russia, it’s a status thing now,” said Jorge Uribe, an associate with One Sotheby’s International Realty in Coral Gables. “If you’re wealthy and you say you have a place in Miami, it’s like saying back in the old days, ‘I own a place in Ibiza or Monaco.’ It’s a cocktail conversation thing.”
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