УСМАНОВ Алішер Бурханович
УСМАНОВ Алишер Бурханович
USMANOV Alisher Burhanovich

Pro-Kremlin oligarch with particularly close ties to russian president putin. The founder and largest shareholder of the USM holding, whose assets include one of the world's leading iron ore producers, Metalloinvest, Udokanskaya Med, the mobile phone operator Megafon, one of the largest cement producers, Akkermann Cement, and the russian part of the Ali Express website. The holding also owned the leading platforms for spreading russian propaganda, such as Odnoklassniki, VKontakte and Mail.ru. Usmanov's assets also include the Kommersant publishing house, which is a censored russian media outlet. The Ugarov OEMK company, part of Metalloinvest, supplied billets to the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, a small arms manufacturer and supplier to the Kalashnikov concern. Ural Steel supplied sheet metal to Uralvagonzavod, a manufacturer of tanks and other armoured vehicles. Megafon provided communications services to dozens of military units of the ministry of defence, the rosgvardia and many defence companies in russia.