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Times
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
‘We will give £100m to the fight against type 1 diabetes'
Sitting at the kitchen table of their renovated London villa — at times giggling or interrupting each another — Igor and Anastasia Bukhman don't seem so different from any other couple raising a family. One of their four children arrives clutching a cartoon book she's keen to recommend. Somewhere a labrador barks. Things were very different a decade ago. He was building a successful mobile gaming business with his brother, Dmitry; she was looking after their first two toddlers — and in 2014 the family returned from a dream road trip to north Spain weighed down with worry. Perhaps it was the heat or the change of routine that had made their elder daughter, Sonya, so tired and thirsty. Nevertheless, Anastasia had decided that the
Times
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
‘We will spend £100m to help treat our daughter'
Sitting at the kitchen table of their renovated London villa — at times giggling or interrupting each another — Igor and Anastasia Bukhman don't seem so different from any other couple raising a family. One of their four children arrives clutching a cartoon book she's keen to recommend. Somewhere a labrador barks. Things were very different a decade ago. He was building a successful mobile gaming business with his brother, Dmitry; she was looking after their first two toddlers — and in 2014 the family returned from a dream road trip to north Spain weighed down with worry. Perhaps it was the heat or the change of routine that had made their elder daughter, Sonya, so tired and thirsty. Nevertheless, Anastasia had decided that the
Times
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
40 richest people under 40 in the UK
Megastars are beaten by the new titans of tech in this year's 40 under 40 list, which includes British talent from entertainment, sport and business — both inherited and self-made start-ups. Leading the pack is Dmitry Bukhman, 39, who along with his older brother, Igor, 43, taught himself to code as a child in Russia. The brothers, who took British citizenship this year, went on to create the mobile gaming giant Playrix. But Bukhman, a father of four, still urges parents to impose rules on screen time for children. 'Games should be in moderation,' he says. 'Especially for kids.' AI developers, coders and data firms now make up almost half the list. Turning text into audio spoken in more than 140 languages has boosted the
