Usmanov is chief executive officer of Gazprominvestholding. His fortune stems
from holdings in mining (Metalloinvest, Russia's largest iron ore producer), technology (Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Zynga and Groupon through Digital Sky Technologies and Mail.ru) and telecommunications (MegaFon). He also co-owns U.K. soccer team Arsenal.
Alisher Usmanov News
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OAO MegaFon, Russia’s second-largest mobile operator by revenue, overtook bigger rival OAO Mobile TeleSystems by market value after pledging to pay $1.3 billion in dividends and beating analysts’ earnings estimates.
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The world’s 200 richest people added $44.6 billion to their collective net worth this week as the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 15,000 for the first time.
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Qiwi Plc, an instant-payment operator, rose in its first day of trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market after raising $213 million in the second initial public offering by a Russian company this year.
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Alisher Usmanov, Russia’s richest person, moved control of most of his $20 billion fortune last year to a holding company based in the British Virgin Islands, a collection of more than 60 isles 5,600 miles away from Moscow.
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Alisher Usmanov, the Russian billionaire who made a more than 10-fold return from his investment in Facebook Inc., said he recently spent about $100 million buying Apple Inc. shares in anticipation they will rise.
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Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov will consider his strategy for the soccer club by the end of the season, saying majority owner Stan Kroenke “doesn’t show any wish” to create a winning team.
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United Capital Partners is seeking to boost the value of Russia’s largest social network VKontakte to $10 billion within a decade after buying a 48 percent stake, the fund’s President Ilya Sherbovich told state television.
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Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia’s 14th-richest person, and his wife, Elena Rybolovleva, have been brawling for almost five years in at least seven countries over his $9.5 billion fortune.
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Pavel Durov is Russia's Mark Zuckerberg. Just five months younger than the Facebook founder, the programmer formed VKontakte in 2006, giving the Russian-language social network two years to build a following before Facebook arrived. Today, VKontakte has 43 million users in its home country, dwarfing Facebook's Russian presence.
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Roman Abramovich, Russia’s eighth- richest person, is the country’s most charitable billionaire.
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