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...He had his start in tech during the period of perestroika — the political movement for openness — in the late 1980s, when with older brother Magomed, a co-owner of Summa, the pair sold imported computers...
...– FT Alphaville Mythbusting Uber’s valuation – FT Alphaville When tech companies become more powerful than governments – FT Alphaville Web perestroika – FT Alphaville...
...He started out selling rugs and theatre tickets during perestroika before he, Mr Khan, and a few friends founded the Alfa Group out of a Moscow student dormitory in 1989....
...Perhaps it’s tantamount to a perestroika moment for the web?...
...These elements combine in Mr Putin’s self-styled role as “chief executive officer” of Russia Inc. But it is a clannish style of CEO....
...were endless squabbles, denunciations and eavesdropping, oaths of eternal friendships and loyalty that never existed and could never exist in politics,” reminisced Alexander Yakovlev, the ideologue of perestroika...
...The highlight of the concert was Yuri Shevchuk, lead singer of the perestroika era rock group DDT, who sang the Russian ballad “Motherland” as a flight of white balloons was released from the crowd....
...“Four to five years after perestroika everything came to a stop,” he says. Standing pea-sized next to a Mi-26, he gleefully narrates the Mi-26’s daring rescue of the Chinook....
...In addition to the “underground” contemporary galleries that emerged after perestroika, many new ones have been set up, often backed by oligarchs....
...Mikhail Gorbachev instituted a loosening of the Soviet economy (perestroika) in tandem with a political relaxation (glasnost), and the entire regime collapsed....
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