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to the new VBR LLC. And on the afternoon of July 23, shortly before Kadyrov’s post, Wildberries sellers received a notification that they would soon need to accept a new version of the marketplace offer with its new legal entity - VBR LLC.
A week earlier, Forbes reported on the exodus of top managers from Wildberries. The company was left by the former head of Pyaterochka and Magnit Olga Naumova, who had just transferred to the position of executive director, another executive director Alexey Dukhanin and financial director Irina Matachunas.
This afternoon, Forbes reported that its third co-founder, Bakalchukov’s longtime partner Sergei Anufriev, left the company in the spring. “There are layoffs in the company, and people from Russ are taking the place of previous employees. The source claims that layoffs also began at Wildberry Bank: in particular, the chairman of the board of directors, Vladimir Bakin, was fired,” Forbes wrote.
If we abstract from discussions on the topic “who will defeat whom—Kadyrov or Kerimov,” then Tatyana Bakalchuk’s position in the conflict looks strong. For many years, acquaintances of the creators of Wildberries said that Bakalchuk’s husband is also a shareholder of the company with an equal share, and sources close to the company even called him “the brain of Wildberries,” but according to all documents, Tatyana Bakalchuk really owns 99% of the marketplace. She is known to everyone as the creator and face of the company, and the deal with Russ, no matter how strange it may look, was approved by Vladimir Putin himself. But this position has one weak point: according to the law, during a divorce, jointly acquired property must be divided equally, unless otherwise stated in the marriage contract. According to Vladislav Bakalchuk, there was no such contract.
The conflict puts Vladimir Putin in a not very comfortable position, who at first supported the strange deal and frankly fantastic plans, and now learns from Ramzan Kadyrov that it was a raider takeover.
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Founded by former Russian Minister of Communications Leonid Reiman, JSC NTC IT Rosa estimated the necessary investments in the development of a domestic gaming console at 1 billion rubles. A company representative announced this at a meeting held at the Ministry of Industry and Trade on July 12, a source familiar with the discussions reported. It was devoted to the issue of developing and producing gaming consoles in Russia. According to the source, representatives of the developer companies Fplus, MCST, Aquarius, GS Group and others were present there.
YouTube streaming speeds will be slowed due to “technical problems”
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