Alisher Usmanov

Russian tycoons target Norilsk

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel, Alisher Usmanov
May 28, 2008 8:02 pm

Vladimir Potanin and Alisher Usmanov, two Russian metals tycoons, said on Wednesday they had agreed on an asset tie-up that would open the way for the creation of a Russian ... Read more »

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Norilsk Nickel to Be Melted Down

Filed under Deals, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel, Alisher Usmanov
March 3, 2008 7:08 pm

GMK Norilsk Nickel has set to preparing the merger with Gazmetall holding of Alisher Usmanov in an effort to oppose the hostile takeover by Rusal. What’s more, the firms of ... Read more »

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Norilsk/Rusal

Filed under Deals, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel, Alisher Usmanov
February 28, 2008 8:45 pm

Even by Russian standards, this tussle has it all. Feuding oligarchs; national politics; and a fight to control what would be one of the mining industry’s biggest companies, conducted within ... Read more »

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Five of Russia’s richest 12 men to form a mining giant !

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel, Alisher Usmanov
February 21, 2008 12:56 pm

Billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s holding company ZAO Metalloinvest, Russia’s largest producer of iron ore, wants to combine with OAO GMK Norilsk Nickel to create an $85 billion mining company.  Metalloinvest has ... Read more »

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Arsenal’s suitor denies allegations of murky past

Filed under Alisher Usmanov
November 19, 2007 5:40 pm

The Uzbek-born billionaire who has bought almost a quarter of Arsenal FC has spoken frankly about serious allegations over his personal and business life in a remarkable email exchange with ... Read more »

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Alisher Usmanov — Billionaire With Presidential Ambitions?

Filed under Politics, Alisher Usmanov
October 17, 2007 4:01 pm

He’s one of Russia’s richest men, an oligarch whose industrial empire stretches from mining and media to a stake in London’s famed Arsenal football club. But if Alisher Usmanov seems ... Read more »

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Usmanov cuddles up to Arsenal

Filed under Alisher Usmanov
10:25 am

Alisher Usmanov, the Russian billionaire metals magnate with a 23 per cent stake in Arsenal, yesterday sought to mend fences with the Premier League club by saying he would vote ... Read more »

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Arsenal holds meeting with Kroenke

Filed under Alisher Usmanov, Stan Kroenke - Kroenke Group
October 4, 2007 10:08 pm

Arsenal’s board met with American billionaire Stan Kroenke for the first time after Alisher Usmanov increased his stake in the Premier League club.Kroenke bought 12 percent of the club in ... Read more »

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Arsenal strikes back at Usmanov demands

Filed under Alisher Usmanov
11:19 am

Arsenal hit back on Wednesday at Alisher Usmanov, the Russian billionaire metals magnate, saying his demands for an independent board and dividend payments were unacceptable. Football club officials were understood ... Read more »

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Tycoon donates art to Russian presidential residence

Filed under Philanthrophy, Art, Alisher Usmanov
October 1, 2007 5:54 pm

Russian billionaire on Monday donated the renown Rostropovich art collection to a St Petersburg presidential residence renovated on the orders of President Vladimir Putin. Alisher Usmanov, worth an estimated ... Read more »

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Arsenal Suitor Usmanov Raises Stake to 23%

Filed under Alisher Usmanov
September 28, 2007 3:59 pm

Alisher Usmanov moved a step closer to gaining a say in the running of Arsenal by lifting his stake in the English soccer team by 2 percentage points to 23 ... Read more »

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Downed blogger Murray vows to continue Usmanov attacks

Filed under Alisher Usmanov
September 25, 2007 3:55 pm

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray has vowed to carry on making allegations against billionaire Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov, despite attempts to silence him and his supporters. Murray told ... Read more »

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Political Sites Yanked in Tycoon Row

Filed under Investigations & Law, Alisher Usmanov
September 24, 2007 6:47 pm

Several high-profile political Web sites, including that of a leading contender for London mayor, have been pulled from the Internet after Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov threatened legal action. Web hosting ... Read more »

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We make £35,000 a minute on matchdays - we don’t need Usmanov’s money , insists Arsenal chief

Filed under Deals, Alisher Usmanov
1:32 pm

Arsenal managing director Keith Edelman today warned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov that he has no hope of buying the club.Edelman says the board have been “perplexed” by Usmanov’s aggressive share ... Read more »

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Billionaire Usmanov increases stake in Arsenal

Filed under Deals, Alisher Usmanov
September 18, 2007 6:44 am

Red and White Holdings, an investment vehicle co-owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, said on Tuesday it had increased its stake in Arsenal Holdings to 21 percent, making it the second-largest shareholder. read the rest published by Reuters here: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/070918/2/vbzk.html

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Rostropovich Art Sells for More Than $40 Million

Filed under Art, Alisher Usmanov
September 17, 2007 2:04 pm

Sotheby’s said it sold the Russian art collected by the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife to a private buyer for more than 20 million pounds ($40 million). The ... Read more »

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Usmanov aims legal arsenal at bloggers

Filed under Investigations & Law, Alisher Usmanov
September 13, 2007 1:32 pm

Arsenal’s newest shareholder, the Uzbek minerals billionaire Alisher Usmanov, continues to police discussion of his past and of his intentions for the Gunners after paying £75m for David Dein’s ... Read more »

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Arsenal dismiss billionaire backer

Filed under Deals, Alisher Usmanov
September 11, 2007 3:46 am

 The idea that Arsenal, seen by some to be ripe for a takeover, need a billionaire backer was dismissed as lunacy by club chairman Peter Hill-Wood today. Hill-Wood insisted ... Read more »

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Russian billionaire buys Soviet cartoons from U.S. film company

Filed under Alisher Usmanov
September 6, 2007 7:23 am

September 5 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian billionaire has bought rights to a collection of Soviet-era cartoons from U.S.-based film company and presented them to a new Russian state-run children’s ... Read more »

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Hard man of Russia who made his pile through steel

Filed under Profiles, Alisher Usmanov
September 2, 2007 3:32 am

Guardian Unlimited profiles Alisher Usmanov here: http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2159794,00.html Alisher Usmanov, who now owns 14.5% of Arsenal, has stayed in Putin’s good books, writes Luke Harding Friday August 31, 2007 The Guardian ... Read more »

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