Sentences with phrase «company by oligarch»
Durov and his brother Nikolai Durov, a mathematical genius, were behind the creation of VK, «Russia's Facebook», worth an estimated $ 3 billion, but were effectively forced to sell their stake in the company by oligarch shareholders deeply connected to the Putin - led government.
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Durov and his brother Nikolai Durov, a mathematical genius, were behind the creation of VK, «Russia's Facebook», worth an estimated $ 3 billion, but were effectively forced to sell their stake in the company by oligarch shareholders deeply connected to the Putin - led government.
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ZURICH, April 12 - Switzerland's Sulzer has used a share buyback to free itself from U.S. sanctions, highlighting a potential escape route for other companies controlled by Russian oligarchs targeted in Washington's crackdown on President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.
Also, Cohen legally represented something called the Ukrainian Capital Growth Fund, he and two Ukrainian partners made failed investments in a gambling cruise business, and he tried to pitch US investors to fund a Ukrainian ethanol company controlled by an allegedly mob - connected oligarch.
Russian labor still went unpaid as the oligarchs converted their roubles into dollars at the exchange rate subsidized by the IMF loans and investment inflows into GKO bills and stocks in the natural resource companies being privatized.
That's because our once great country is controlled by greed crazed oligarchs, many of whom have grown to love the dividends and appreciation from oil and coal company stocks.
The biggest client of Columbus Nova is a company controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who was questioned at an airport this year by investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller.
Acting for a Russian oligarch in high profile proceedings brought in the English Commercial Court by the family of the late Arkady Patarkatsishvili claiming an entitlement to a stake he formerly held in one of Russia's leading steel and mining companies, Metalloinvest.