Alisher Usmanov
Summary
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (born 9 September 1953, Namangan Province, Uzbek SSR, USSR) is a Russian based businessman of Uzbek origin. According to the 2010 edition of Forbes magazine, the oligarch is one of Russia's richest men, with a fortune estimated at US$7.2 billion, and the world's 100th richest person.Usmanov is married and is a graduate of Moscow's elite state university.He has accrued his wealth from mining, lumber and investment.. He is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which he founded to manage Gazprom's metals interests.He is known in business circles as "the hard man of Russia". He spent six years in jail during the 1980s for crimes committed in the USSR.
Latest Alisher Usmanov News RSS Feed
-
Billionaires' club has welcomed 210 new members, Forbes rich list reports
Carlos Slim, worth $73bn, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with $67bn and Zara tycoon Amancio Ortega are world's wealthiest.
-
Roman Abramovich invests £70m in UK firm Truphone
Chelsea owner will take a 23. 3% stake in the mobile telecoms company, which is currently valued at £300m.
-
Ten channels awarded licences on Russia's multiplex 2
Russian telecommunications regulator, Roskomnadzor, published the names of the winners in the tender for DTT licences for country's multiplex 2. They are: Ren TV. . . (free content).
-
Russian telecoms giant to float for £8bn as oligarch heads for the City
Megafon, the Russian telecoms giant part-owned by Alisher Usmanov, an oligarch, is to float with a market value of as much as $12. 5bn (£7. 8bn) as fund managers dismiss concerns about corporate governance.
-
Mail.Ru cuts stakes in Groupon, Facebook, Zygna
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian email-to-social networking group Mail. Ru cut its stakes in U. S. internet firms Groupon, Facebook, and Zygna, according to the company's website.
-
Russia's Mail.Ru to launch global expansion with online games
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian email-to-social networking group Mail. Ru is targeting online gamers as it prepares to launch services in foreign markets under the 'my. com' name.
-
Russian mobile network MegaFon confirms London IPO
Mobile operator owned by Russia's richest man expected to float 15-20% of shares on London and Moscow exchanges.
-
Medvedev points Facebook's Zuckerberg towards Russian IT sector
GORKI, Russia (Reuters) - Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev told Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday that Russia's IT industry was as promising an area for investment as its natural resources sectors.
-
Medvedev points Facebook's Zuckerberg towards Russian IT sector
GORKI, Russia (Reuters) - Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev told Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday that Russia's IT industry was as promising an area for investment as its natural resources sectors.
-
Russian mobile operator MegaFon seeks £2.5bn London flotation
IPO of company controlled by Russia's richest man would be world's biggest since Facebook listed in New York.
TheMediaBriefing Social