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    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Russian business & finance
      Russian oligarch Alexei Kuzmichev held by French police

      Sanctions-hit billionaire’s properties in Paris and southern France searched

      Alexei Kuzmichev
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Fridman challenges UK sanctions to pay £30,000-per-month London mansion costs

      Russian businessman asks High Court to be allowed to cover London staff salaries, including for a driver

      Mikhail Fridman
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Sanctions-hit oligarch Mikhail Fridman returns to Moscow

      Alfa Group co-founder departed UK for Israel last month but returned to Russia after Hamas attacked Israel on Saturday

      Mikhail Fridman
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US imposes sanctions on four Russian tycoons connected to Alfa-Bank

      Treasury steps up campaign to punish Moscow’s elite for invasion of Ukraine

      Mikhail Fridman
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      LetterOne challenges UK national security sale of broadband provider Upp

      Group backed by sanctions-hit Russian oligarchs seeks to reverse forced divestiture

      Someone holding a mobile phone
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      UK scales back probe into Mikhail Fridman four months after raid in London

      National Crime Agency drops two of three lines of inquiry against sanctions-hit Russian billionaire after his arrest in December

      Mikhail Fridman
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Russian politics
      The letter-writing campaign in pursuit of Russian sanctions relief

      Opposition figures rally around Mikhail Fridman

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Due Diligence
      The oligarchs trying to sell their way out of sanctions Premium content

      Plus, pressure mounts on EY’s boss and Soho House tries a new strategy

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven set to offload Alfa-Bank stake in $2.3bn deal

      Oligarchs’ partner Andrei Kosogov agrees to take over Russia’s largest private lender as they fight western sanctions

      Montage of Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman
    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      UK politics
      UK cites security risk as it orders sale of Russian-backed broadband provider

      Government also blocks proposed tech acquisition by a Chinese semiconductor company

      From left: German Khan, Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman, London skyline
    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      ‘Look, we’re not sanctioned’: how Holland & Barrett owner cut ties with Russian investors

      LetterOne’s chair Mervyn Davies appoints new board as it finalises separation from oligarchs

      Mervyn Davies
    • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
      The Big Read
      Russia’s melancholy oligarchs

      The tycoons are bitter about sanctions that have left them ostracised in the west and impotent at home

      Mikhail Fridman
    • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
      Veon Ltd
      Banks review relationship with telecoms group linked to Mikhail Fridman

      Business tycoon, one of Russia’s richest men, was hit with sanctions by the EU

      Mikhail Fridman pictured in October 2021
    • Friday, 4 March, 2022
      News in-depth
      Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven: oligarchs caught between Putin and the west

      Russian tycoons parted from European business empire have strong ties to UK establishment

      Montage of Petr Aven, Mikhail Fridman and London skyline
    • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
      Mikhail Fridman loses control of LetterOne after sanctions

      Russian tycoon and fellow billionaire Petr Aven agree to have stakes in London-based investment group ‘frozen’

      Mikhail Fridman, left, and Petr Aven
    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
      Russian magnate Mikhail Fridman says direct criticism of Putin risks reprisals

      One of Russia’s richest men says any ‘unacceptable’ statement would hurt his workforce and customers

      Mikhail Fridman sitting during an interview
    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      Russian business & finance
      EU freezes assets of Russia’s leading oligarchs and allies of Putin

      Alfa Group’s Mikhail Fridman, Rosneft’s Igor Sechin and financier Alisher Usmanov on Brussels blacklist

      Mikhail Fridman, Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov
    • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
      Mikhail Fridman speaks out against Ukrainian conflict in letter to staff

      Businessman tells employees at private equity firm LetterOne that ‘war can never be the answer’

      Mikhail Fridman speaks while sitting on a couch
    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      Mikhail Fridman’s LetterOne to block BASF over Wintershall IPO

      Investment group says float of $20bn company not desirable in short-term

      Mikhail Fridman
    • Saturday, 6 November, 2021
      InterviewEnergy crisis
      Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman warns rapid switch from gas is ‘irresponsible’

      Billionaire to invest more in renewable energy but says transition will be ‘very challenging process’

      Mikhail Fridman
    • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
      UK Broadband
      LetterOne backs £1bn UK broadband plan to compete with BT

      Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s group to finance fibre network rollout to 1m premises in eastern England

      Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman
    • Thursday, 10 October, 2019
      LexLetterOne Holdings SA
      Fridman/LetterOne: for the love of Mike Premium content

      A drawn-out court case could damp investor appetite for the Russian’s energy business

    • Monday, 7 October, 2019
      Mikhail Fridman faces quizzing on Spanish corporate ‘raid’

      Russian billionaire accused of using ‘economic siege’ to drive down price of takeover target

      Russian businessman, co-founder of Alfa-Group Mikhail Fridman attends a conference of the Israeli foundation Keren Hayesod in Moscow, Russia, September 17, 2019. Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS
    • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
      Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentacion SA
      Investor support for Dia rescue paves way for Fridman buyout

      Shareholders in Spanish grocer vote in favour of LetterOne’s €500m capital injection

      FILE PHOTO: A woman looks at food items inside a store of Spanish discount grocer DIA , December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File Photo
    • Friday, 8 February, 2019
      News in-depthWeek in Review
      Mikhail Fridman seeks to replicate Russian success with Dia buyout

      Oligarch says shift west is born of a desire to prove himself again

      FILE PHOTO: Mikhail Fridman, Chairman of Supervisory Board of Alfa Group Consortium and Member of Supervisory Board of ?5 Retail Group, attends a ceremony as ?5 Retail Group starts trading on Moscow Exchange in the city of Moscow, Russia February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo
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