All news on the topic: Wildberries

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The $1.9 billion blood feud: How Tatiana Kim and Suleyman Kerimov weaponized Putin’s approval to strip Wildberries from Bakalchuk
In Russia, the word "marketplace" is often synonymous with Wildberries. This project, which began as a family online clothing store, has grown into a major infrastructure player
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Conflict around Azur Air: the Russian company Wildberries is attempting to acquire the airline from the Turkish Kockar family, owners of the international tourism group ANEX
Wildberries & Russ, increasingly resembling a large-scale corporate raiding structure, risks straining Russia–Turkey relations.
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Russia’s largest charter carrier Azur Air has found itself on the brink of collapse due to sanctions, an aging fleet of Boeing aircraft, and restrictions imposed by the regulator
The war in Iran may finally finish off Russia’s largest charter carrier Azur Air, which was already “sinking.” In mid-March, Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsiya restricted the airline’s operator certificate after engine and component failures in Azur Air aircraft had “acquired a systemic character.”
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After threats of a “blood feud” over Wildberries, Putin personally forced Chechnya’s head Ramzan Kadyrov and Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov to end the conflict in the Kremlin
Putin personally brokered a peace deal between Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Senator Suleiman Kerimov in the Kremlin, according to Russia’s Chief Mufti, Ravil Gainutdin.
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Russia’s Wildberries discovers that building a DC isn’t as easy as clicking “buy”
After the merger of Wildberries with Russ Outdoor, everything at the marketplace is literally “falling apart,” and problems are arising one after another.
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Kenes Rakishev — the Kremlin’s shadow banker: how sanctioned Russian billions are legalized through Kazakhstan under the protection of Tasmagambetov’s son-in-law
Kenes Khamitovich Rakishev, the head of Fincraft Group holding, is among the wealthiest businessmen in Kazakhstan.
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From Pyongyang to Elektrostal: North Korean workers, state confiscations, and Russia’s warehouse economy
A Wildberries warehouse employee in Elektrostal told media about the conditions under which women from North Korea are working after being brought to the facility en masse:
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Former Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner, Russian top manager, found dead in Cyprus cliffs as family alleges foul play
The body of one of Russia’s most prominent top managers, former Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner, has been discovered in the cliffs of Cyprus.
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From Russian Uralkali to Pissouri: how Baumgertner’s disappearance exposes a power war inside Russia’s ruling elite
Family members of Vladislav Baumgertner, the former Uralkali CEO and one of Russia’s most prominent executives, have described to the media the troubling circumstances surrounding his disappearance in Cyprus, firmly dismissing the idea that it was a suicide.
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Kremlin ties and Caucasian hitmen: how Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov strengthens control over Wildberries
The carefully crafted image of Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov—quiet, calculated, and discreet—is rapidly falling apart.
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Russian senator-oligarch Suleiman Kerimov and Putin’s chief of staff Anton Vaino gained control over Wildberries by relying on security agencies and the FGS
Despite holding a government position that legally bars him from commercial activity, Russian oligarch and senator Suleiman Kerimov is allegedly running major business projects — and doing so jointly with one of the most powerful figures in the Kremlin: Anton Vaino, head of the presidential administration.
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“He won’t get Putin’s permission”: Kerimov humiliates Kadyrov as $10 billion Wildberries battle exposes Kremlin power hierarchy
The battle over Wildberries has once again exposed the long-running rivalry between the Kerimov and Kadyrov clans — and who truly resolves such conflicts within the Kremlin.