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Frou-Frou for Mom. How the restaurant of Russian Orlov ended up in the Shkil family
Maksym Shkil likes to talk about patriotism. Now about with whom his family shares business outside of concrete.
October 2021. Owner — Orlov
Frou Frou in Pechersk, Moskovska (now Knyaziv Ostrozkykh), 44. In August 2021 the restaurant opened in test mode as a project of Bulldozer Group by Russian restaurateur Oleksandr Orlov. 7 October the official opening took place: red carpet, triumphal arch, oysters, black caviar. Fokus then wrote plainly: among the guests “the owner of the restaurant — Oleksandr Orlov.”
Orlov is a citizen of Russia, born in Moscow, founder of Tanuki. Two weeks before the Kyiv opening, a trademark application for FROU FROU was filed in Russia. It was registered to a Moscow company along with other Bulldozer brands. In November 2021 Orlov opened Frou Frou in St. Petersburg. He himself explained: “We had such a restaurant in Kyiv, and we decided to make an analogue.” In other words the Kyiv Frou Frou is the original, from which the Russian copied his St. Petersburg venue.
2022. War, arrest, new LLC
In March 2022 the Ukrainian Bulldozer team announced that Orlov “is no longer involved.” 18 May 2022 an LLC “Premium Food Kyiv” was registered (code 44770352). It is the company that today operates Frou Frou, as recorded in the restaurant’s public contract. In July the NABU asset recovery unit seized property worth 400 million UAH. According to the investigation, Orlov through offshore companies and proxies continued to control assets in Ukraine. In September the same establishments, together with Frou Frou and Manga Sushi, moved under the new brand Enjoy Group.
Where does Shkil fit in
In Opendatabot records among the owners and beneficiaries of “Premium Food Kyiv,” current or former, is Tetyana Vasylivna Shkil from Lviv. In the same list of her companies are “3S Group,” Shkil’s structure, and four LLCs “Manga Sushi.” Journalists name her as the mother of Maksym Shkil. According to 368.media, at the end of 2024 she exited the company, and the capital fell from 1 million to 500 UAH. Now 100% belongs to Yevhen Kolkin.
It turns out like this. The restaurant, whose owner in 2021 was publicly presented as a Russian, was after the invasion re-registered to a new firm. And the family of the state’s main contractor appears in it.
Questions for Shkil
Orlov says he owns nothing in Ukraine. But the brand is his, the concept is his, and at the opening he was the host.
Mr. Shkil, how did Orlov’s restaurant end up in your mother’s company? Who today receives the money for the Frou Frou brand? And are you really not bothered that the family of a contractor who builds bridges for the state for billions of budget money is entering the business of a Moscow restaurateur?
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