NVNataliya Vasilyeva

1. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Nataliya Vasilyeva, Paul Sonne, Alina Lobzina, Oleg Matsnev

   ‘Destroyed’: Russia’s richest woman is watching her empire go up in flames (opens the original)

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   She built Russia’s answer to Amazon. She navigated wartime Kremlin politics. And she outmanoeuvred her ex-husband — the father of her seven children — in a rancorous business feud that involved a deadly shooting near Red Square. But Tatyana Kim, billionaire co-founder of the online marketplace Wildberries and the richest woman in Russia, is now facing a far greater challenge. Ukrainian airstrikes are decimating her company’s facilities and threatening her business empire’s survival. After months

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2. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Nataliya Vasilyeva

   Alyona joined the line for petrol at 11pm. She didn’t get served until 5pm the next day (opens the original)

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   Istanbul: Alyona Sadovnikova first experienced Russia’s petrol shortages in mid-June, when she pulled into a station and was told it was serving only customers who had ration coupons. “I was horrified: Are we in the Soviet Union now where you had to get coupons to buy sausage?” she said. Just a few days later, Sadovnikova found herself waiting 18 hours to fill up in the city of Irkutsk, in eastern Siberia, almost 5000 kilometres from the Ukrainian border. As Ukraine escalates its attacks on Russ

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