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By Ben Aris in Berlin There is a very strange story unfolding in Russia’s tech sector. The leading e-commerce platform Wildberries is in avery weird merger with an outdoor billboard company called Russ that is ten times smaller than it and brings nothing to the party that any analyst can discern. But the deal was personally endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now it turns out that the founder and driving force of the company, Tatiana Bakalchuk, who is alsoRussia’s richest woman, is divorcing her husband, Vladislav Bakalchuk, who only holds 1% of the company. In a very bizarre twist, …

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