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LLC Russ Outdoor

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Oct 15, 2026

Jerome StarkeyHOST
4:04
So and bear in mind, 2024, this is two years into the full-scale war in Ukraine.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
4:09
In June, Wildberries announced it was going to merge with an advertising company called Russ Group.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
4:17
Now, Russ Group's beneficial owner, although not listed as the official owner, is Suleiman Kerimov, so this was his company.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
4:25
It was announced as a sort of like for like merger as two equal partners coming together, and that sparked some confusion in Russia because Wildberries was 20 times bigger.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
4:36
A month later, Tatiana Kim, the Chechen-born founder of the company, announced that she was divorcing her husband, Vladislav Bakalchuk, who she met before she founded the company.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
4:49
And simultaneously, Bakalchuk announced that he had enlisted the support of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen warlord, to try and block that merger between the Russ Group and Wildberries.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
5:03
Kadyrov described it as a hostile takeover, and in a video he published, he promised to bring Tatiana back into the family.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
5:12
Now, I think if you know who Kadyrov is, when somebody like him says he's going to bring somebody back into the family, and he also said he was going to protect a legitimate business, that is not quite as kind as it sounds.

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