"By the way, here it is, the sole owner of" Vkontakte "and" Classmates ". Both sotsseti are part of the holding company "Mail". Py ", owned by the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov. So here he is, the beneficiary of the payment system, advertising and everything else, what makes Russian social networks popular in Ukraine.

He was born in 1953 in Uzbekistan, was a member of the Soviet party elite, graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

In 1980, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for extorting bribes and stealing socialist property, was released early, served six years.

Has grown rich for several years, having got in structure of management of "Gazprom", it is connected by related communications with family of the operating president of Uzbekistan.

Usmanov bought "Vkontakte" for about 2 billion dollars. The creator of "Vkontakte" Pavel Durov said that he was forced to make a deal to sell his package of social network "under the pressure of the FSB", which requires personal data of supporters of EuroMaidan ".

Russian Internet expert Anton Nosik cited the dynamics of changes in the value of shares "Mail. Ru "in 2012-2017-m years. The shares did not rise, but even fell in price: "Any sensible investor after the spiraling news about # Krymnasch and a rabid printer rushed out of Russian securities. It is enough to read at least prospectuses of issue of Yandex and the same Mail. Ru Group, where investors were directly warned about country risks associated with the specific behavior of Russian authorities on the Internet market. Could not help but warn, because hiding such essential information from investors under American laws is fraught with both criminal prosecution and billions of civil claims. How could such a cunning businessman like Alisher Burkhanovich not heed his own warnings? !!.

There are such assets in Russia, it is much more profitable to invest in them than in any Facebook or Tesla. And as they look and are called, you can see in the video of Alexei Navalny "He's not Dimon".

Russian oppositionist Aleksei Navalny has documented that Alisher Usmanov bribed the acting Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the form of a luxurious villa and 4.3 hectares of land in the most expensive and prestigious location near Moscow Rublyovka, a market value of at least 5 billion rubles. Navalny considers Usmanov's source of income to be close to the authorities and receiving illegal preferences as a result of corruption ties with the leadership of the Russian Federation.

Usmanov is also known as the owner of the publishing house "Kommersant". In 2011, Usmanov fired the editor-in-chief of the Vlast magazine, Maxim Kovalsky, who is part of the publishing house, for publishing a magazine in the issue of the election to the State Duma on the cover of a photo of the ballot, which read "Putin went to. !! "And the article" The Victory of Independent Bodies ", about the falsification of Putin's ruling party.

In general, the defender of freedom of speech, this uncle is clearly not like.

Usmanov also - President of the International Fencing Federation.

Included in the top five of the richest people in Russia, among the ten richest people in the UK, and among the ten richest people in Switzerland. Almost the entire time he lives outside of Russia, in his foreign estates. He owns one of the largest yachts in the world, and other attributes of post-Soviet oligarchs, "- summed up the journalist.