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HUFFINGTON
07.28.13
Dmitry Itskov
Knows He’ll
Live Forever
AP PHOTO/MARY ALTAFFER
BY BIANCA BOSKER
O SOONER has Dmitry
Itskov, a 32-year-old
Russian multimillionaire, sat down at
the table in his hotel room than
he springs up again and begins
pawing through the snacks in the
minibar. He tosses aside chips and
N
candy, settles on a box of mixed
nuts, then sits back down.
Itskov maintains a strict diet
— no meat, fish, coffee, alcohol
or cold water — but not because
he’s afraid of high blood pressure
or heart disease. In fact, he’s convinced we’ll all live forever.
Itskov’s 2045 Initiative has
the goal of achieving human immortality within the next three
Russian
billionaire
Dmitry Itskov
speaks at
the Global
Future 2045
Congress in
New York
on June 15,
2013.