The Russian Face Behind Facebook
Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov was already a wealthy man but the public trading of Facebook shares has made him even wealthier.
He and his business associates own almost 10 percent of Facebook.
Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Karina Alexanyan with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, about Usmanov’s Facebook investment and how the social media site isn’t widely used in Russia.
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