The merger of Russia’s largest online retailer and outdoor advertising group results in a “blood feud” between political factions (The Moscow Times)

Russian business outlets characterize the Wildberries-Russ merger into the new company RVB as an undercover dispute between Kadyrov and the influential billionaire senator Kerimov. The merger may also be part of Russia’s wartime redistribution of business assets that has benefited business figures linked to the Kremlin. […]