Alfa Group
Alfa Group is a Russian conglomerate founded in 1990 by Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, Alexei Kuzmichev and Pyotr Aven. It consolidates financial and industrial assets, most notably Alfa-Bank, one of Russia's largest privately held banks, as well as the investment arm A1 and various other holdings. The group is headquartered in Moscow.
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EU Coreper fails to extend Russia sanctions as Slovakia and France push to delist oligarchs
EU ambassadors meeting on 21 September failed to reach consensus on extending the bloc's individual sanctions regime against Russia, which covers roughly 3,000 individuals and entities including Vladimir Putin. Slovakia and France insisted on delisting sanctioned oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman; a compromise deal that would have extended the regime for 36 months in exchange for delisting them collapsed after Latvia blocked it. Coreper scheduled a further meeting for the morning of 22 September, hours before the midnight deadline at which the entire regime would lapse without unanimous renewal. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha publicly called any delisting unacceptable and a wrong signal to Moscow.