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Tatyana Bakalchuk
Tatyana Vladimirovna Kim (; born 16 October 1975), formerly known as Tatyana Vladimirovna Bakalchuk (), is a Russian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Wildberries, the largest Russian online retailer, and the country's first self-made woman billionaire. As of July 2024, ''Forbes'' estimated her net worth at US$7.4 billion. Early life Tatyana Kim was born on 16 October 1975, in a Koryo-saram family. She finished school in Moscow oblast and graduated from Kolomna University. She planned to move to Moscow and continue her education as a designer. Still, she had to abandon that plan and return to teaching English when the 1998 financial crisis struck Russia. Tatyana Bakalchuk was an English teacher. In the early 2000s, she met her future husband Vladislav Bakalchuk, an entrepreneur and a founder of Utech ISP. In 2004, after giving birth to her first child, Bakalchuk launched Wildberries, which initially focused on reselling apparel from Otto and Quelle catalogs. According to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and is the list of federal subjects of Russia by population, second most populous federal subject. The oblast has no official administrative center; its public authorities are located in Moscow and Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk (the Moscow Oblast Duma and the local government), and also across other locations in the oblast.According to Article 24 of the Charter of Moscow Oblast, the government bodies of the oblast are located in the city of Moscow and throughout the territory of Moscow Oblast. However, Moscow is not named the official administrative center of the oblast. Located in European Russia between latitudes 54th parallel north, 54° and 57th parallel north, 57° N and longitudes 35th meridian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology Amazon or Amazone may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Amazon (Amalgam Comics) * Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer * Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters * The Amazon, a '' Diablo II'' character * The Amazon, a '' Pro Wrestling'' character * Amazon (''Dragon's Crown''), a character from the ''Dragon's Crown'' game * '' Kamen Rider Amazon'', title character in the fourth installment of the ''Kamen Rider'' series Film and television * ''The Amazons'' (1917 film), an American silent tragedy film * ''The Amazon'' (film), a 1921 German silent film * '' War Goddess'', also known as ''The Amazons'', a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama * ''Amazons'' (1984 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Digital Development, Communications And Mass Media
The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, often abbreviated as ''Minkomsvyaz'', is a ministry of the Government of Russia responsible for telecommunications, media and the post. History The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media was established in May 2008 from successor agencies of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, and was known as the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications until it receiving its current name in 2018. The ministry is subdivided into functional departments including Roskomnadzor, Rospechat and Rossvyaz. The ministry had its quarters at the Central Telegraph Building before moving to the IQ-quarter building. Maxut Shadayev has been the Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications since 21 January 2020. In July 2021, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media entered into an agreement with China's National Radio and Television Administration to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-Russia People's Front
The All-Russia People's Front (, ONF), since 2023 styled as People's Front (), is a political coalition in Russia started in 2011 by then-Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin to provide the United Russia political party with "new ideas, new suggestions and new faces". The ONF aims to forge formal alliances between United Russia (the party of power, ruling party from 2001 onwards) and numerous Russian non-governmental organizations. On 12 June 2013 the ONF founding conference elected Putin (President of Russia from 2012) as the Front's leader.Putin becomes Popular Front for Russia leader Interfax-Ukraine (13 June 2013). History By May 2011, hundreds of businesses had enlisted their workforces in the organization, including around 40,000 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RBK Group
The RBC Group, or RosBiznesConsulting, is a Russian media group headquartered in Moscow. It was established in 1993. The company holds an informational agency RosBusinessConsulting, including a news web-portal, business newspaper ', monthly business magazine ''RBC'', and RBC TV. Capitalization on MOEX is $44.13 million ( 10 March 2018). History RBC was recognized in Russia for investigative journalism, including reports on corruption and abuse of power which led to a forced change of leadership, including the editor-in-chief Yelizaveta Osetinskaya, in May 2016. In April 2016, searches were conducted at the ONEKSIM Group investment fund, controlling shareholder of the RBC Group, due to publications about Vladimir Putin's daughter Katerina Tikhonova and her husband, Russian oligarch Kirill Shamalov, as well as about the Panama Papers. ''The Moscow Times'' reported that the 11 May 2016 RBC article "Oyster farming will begin in front of "Putin's palace" near Gelendzhik" () revea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VTB Bank
VTB Bank (; formerly known as ''Vneshtorgbank'', , lit. 'International Trade Bank') is a Russian majority state-owned bank headquartered in various federal districts of Russia; its legal address is registered as St. Petersburg. As of 2022, over 90% of the company's capital stock was owned by three Russian agencies. VTB Bank and its subsidiaries form VTB Group – a leading Russian financial group uniting VTB banks located in different countries and offering a wide range of corporate banking services and products in Russia, CIS, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the US. As of April 2025, VTB had a Chinese subsidiary which operated a branch in Shanghai. VTB was ranked 446th on the FT Global 500 in 2011. The ''Financial Times''’ annual snapshot of the world's largest companies. It climbed to 210th in the ranking of the 500 largest companies in Europe, the FT Europe 500 2014, and to 127th in the FT Emerging 500 2014, the list of the 500 largest companies in the world's emerging mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samvel Karapetyan (businessman)
Samvel Karapetyan (; ; born August 18, 1965) is a Russian-Armenian billionaire businessman who owns the Tashir Group conglomerate. Biography Samvel Karapetyan was born on August 18, 1965, in the town of Kalinino (now Tashir, Lori province) in the Armenian SSR. Karapetyan graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1986. He moved to Russia in the 1990s and in 1997, he became the president of the Kaluga-based Kalugaglavsnab OAO, which provides logistics services, particularly to Russia's state gas company Gazprom. He then expanded into Moscow's real estate market. In 1999, he established the Tashir Group, a conglomerate of industrial, construction, supply and delivery companies, hotels, restaurants and other firms numbering more than 200 in total and employing more than 30,000 people. Karapetyan's Tashir Group has made a number of investments and philanthropic endeavors in Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh. Tashir Group owns two lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Industry And Trade (Russia)
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (Minpromtorg, MITRF, ) is an executive ministry of Government of Russia. Its headquarters are in Moscow. Functions and responsibilities The ministry regulates foreign trade, defense and civil industries, metrology, technical standardization, and aviation technology development. It is a federal executive body. MITRF is responsible for subsidizing subcontractors to acquire products for government via investment contracts (special investments contracts) and may also forcibly regulate prices (e.g. for steel industry). MITRF is responsible for contracts involving R&D activities at the expense of government budget. As of 2013 the results of research may be transferred to a subcontractor ownership upon fulfilling (completion) of a contract. History MITRF is a successor to the Soviet Union State Planning Committee (Gosplan). See also * Ministry of Trade and Industry * Government of Russia * Ministry of Energy (Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Mishustin
Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin (born 3 March 1966) is a Russian politician and economist serving as the current prime minister of Russia since 16 January 2020. He previously served as the director of the Federal Taxation Service from 2010 to 2020. President Vladimir Putin nominated Mishustin to become Prime Minister on 15 January 2020, following the resignation of Dmitry Medvedev and the rest of the government to allow for 2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia, sweeping constitutional changes. Hearings on his appointment took place in the State Duma on 16 January, and he was confirmed in office that day. Mishustin has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Early life and education Mikhail Mishustin was born on 3 March 1966 in Lobnya, a town very close to Moscow, to the Mishustin family, Vladimir Moiseyevich and Luiza Mikhailovna. His mother was born in the city of Kotlas in the Arkhangelsk Oblast, Arkha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Manturov
Denis Valentinovich Manturov (; born 23 February 1969) is a Russian politician who has served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia since May 2024. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister from July 2022 until May 2024 and Minister of Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation from 2012 to May 2024. He was appointed as First Deputy Prime Minister after Andrey Belousov was appointed as Minister of Defense. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Early life and education *1994 – Graduated from State Moscow University in Sociology. *2006 – Graduated from Russian State Academy for State Service under the President of Russia *Since 2011 – Professor for Management Systems of Economic objects in Moscow Aviation Institute. In 1997, he completed postgraduate studies at the Moscow State University. In the same year he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. Disse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meduza
''Meduza'' (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek goddess Medusa) is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent '' Lenta.ru'' news website. Free mobile applications for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android became the basis of the media. A semi-official motto of the portal is "Make the Kremlin sad". History In 2014, Galina Timchenko was fired from her job as chief editor at ''Lenta.ru'' by oligarch Alexander Mamut, a supporter of Vladimir Putin, after she had interviewed Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh. She launched the new webpage ''Meduza'' on 25 October 2014. Several former journalists of ''Lenta.ru'' joined the new online site. Timchenko told ''Forbes'' that the decision to base ''Meduza'' in Latvia was made since "right now, establishing an independent Russian language publishing house in Latvia is possible, while in Russia it is not". Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
