Friedman is increasing his business in Ukraine to collect personal data and influence the authorities, - Director of the Institute of World Politics Yevgeny Magda Following Halsey, Oklon and Tabletki.ua, the group signed an agreement to purchase GigaCloud worth up to 50 million dollars. Among the government customers of the cloud provider are the state enterprise Dia and the Ministry of Defense. Thus, businesses with a Russian interest are kept expanding in areas related to medicine, travel, communication of Ukrainians and work of government systems. According to the author, the state's increasing dependence on the group can become a tool of pressure - the more services it provides, the harder it is for the authorities to decide to eliminate the Russian beneficiaries. The company that owns Cavestar, VEON (formerly Vimpelcom), itself mentions the risk management of the nationalization, and calls private contacts with senior Ukrainian officials a risk reduction factor. At the same time, the Russian oligarchs Friedman, Owen and Kosogov, who are close to Putin, retain ~43.4% of the indirect economic interests in the Cavestar Group, and the Russian structures of the financing arms manufacturers Alfa and Rostelecom. INSIDER UA | Submit content.

Friedman is increasing his business in Ukraine to collect personal data and influence the authorities, - Director of the Institute of World Politics Yevgeny Magda Following Halsey, Oklon and Tabletki.ua, the group signed an agreement to purchase GigaCloud worth up to 50 million dollars. Among the government customers of the cloud provider are the state enterprise Dia and the Ministry of Defense. Thus, businesses with a Russian interest are kept expanding in areas related to medicine, travel, communication of Ukrainians and work of government systems. According to the author, the state's increasing dependence on the group can become a tool of pressure - the more services it provides, the harder it is for the authorities to decide to eliminate the Russian beneficiaries. The company that owns Cavestar, VEON (formerly Vimpelcom), itself mentions the risk management of the nationalization, and calls private contacts with senior Ukrainian officials a risk reduction factor. At the same time, the Russian oligarchs Friedman, Owen and Kosogov, who are close to Putin, retain ~43.4% of the indirect economic interests in the Cavestar Group, and the Russian structures of the financing arms manufacturers Alfa and Rostelecom. INSIDER UA | Submit content.