Green Room - Week 5 - Day 11
Apr. 11th, 2022 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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therealljidolWelcome to our new home. At least for now. :)
I'm sorry for the disruption.
The new entry link is https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1111477.html
For those not familiar with the ownership of Livejournal. I know that I had missed several of these developments over the years:
2007 - Six Apart was purchased by SUP at the end of 2007, Russian-based media company SUP bought it from Six Apart. The news was followed by a wave of outrage. SUP’s CEO was Alexander Mamut, a Russian banker with alleged ties to the Kremlin. (https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/whatever-happened-livejournal/)
2013 - SUP was purchased by, and merged with Rambler Media Group - https://cybpoint.ru/en/windows-7/rambler-internet-holding-oficialnyi-ooo-rih-obedinenie-s-sup-media-vladimira.html
2020 - Rambler Bank was purchased by Sber, the state-controlled bank https://www.ewdn.com/2020/10/29/sber-completes-full-acquisition-of-online-media-and-entertainment-group-rambler/
March of 2022 - CEO of Sber was added to the sanctions list https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-oligarch-herman-gref-sberbank-added-us-sanctions-list-2022-3 "The US Department of the Treasury has added a key Russian financial sector official and close confidant to Vladimir Putin to its list of sanctioned individuals."
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How are YOU doing today?
I'm sorry for the disruption.
The new entry link is https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1111477.html
For those not familiar with the ownership of Livejournal. I know that I had missed several of these developments over the years:
2007 - Six Apart was purchased by SUP at the end of 2007, Russian-based media company SUP bought it from Six Apart. The news was followed by a wave of outrage. SUP’s CEO was Alexander Mamut, a Russian banker with alleged ties to the Kremlin. (https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/whatever-happened-livejournal/)
2013 - SUP was purchased by, and merged with Rambler Media Group - https://cybpoint.ru/en/windows-7/rambler-internet-holding-oficialnyi-ooo-rih-obedinenie-s-sup-media-vladimira.html
2020 - Rambler Bank was purchased by Sber, the state-controlled bank https://www.ewdn.com/2020/10/29/sber-completes-full-acquisition-of-online-media-and-entertainment-group-rambler/
March of 2022 - CEO of Sber was added to the sanctions list https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-oligarch-herman-gref-sberbank-added-us-sanctions-list-2022-3 "The US Department of the Treasury has added a key Russian financial sector official and close confidant to Vladimir Putin to its list of sanctioned individuals."
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How are YOU doing today?
