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Vedomosti newspaper, citing various sources, claims that Alisher Usmanov had his eye on Yandex. Apparently, the acquisitions of the main investor of the Russian Internet, which in the current summer has become the co-investigator of many leading projects, do not end there. By 18% of Sup (owner of Livejournal.com), the controlling stock of Digital Sky Technologies (Mail.ru, Odnoklassniki.ru and Vkontakte.ru) and shares in several other services soon, according to Vedomosti, Yandex will also be added .
Vedomosti refers to several sources at once. So, about the interest of Usmanov and his negotiations with the co-owner and founder of “Yandex” Arkady Volozh, a source close to one of the investor’s partners told the newspaper. Another source, this time surrounded by Usmanov, reports on the offer to buy 15-20% of the company’s shares already made to Yandex’s shareholders. There is also evidence that Usmanov is counting on a controlling stake in the Russian search giant. However, the representative of Usmanov himself refrained from commenting. As Arkady Volozh, who said that no negotiations on the sale of shares of "Yandex" is not conducted.
Money for the purchase of "Yandex", if it takes place, Usmanov will take a lot. Alfa-Bank analysts believe that the value of the company, taking into account its market position, is about $ 5 billion. So, the controlling stake will cost the investor $ 3 billion, and 15% - at least $ 750 million.
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