Sberbank became the sole owner of Rambler, having bought 45% of the company from Alexander Mamut. Last year Sberbank bought the company's shares for the first time, receiving 46.5% and subsequently increasing its share. Now Sberbank owns 100% of Rambler. Mikhail Tretyak, head of the IP / IT practice at Digital Rights Center, believes that this purchase is another step towards the unification of Russian IT services in one structure:
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No matter how Sberbank positions itself as an independent market player, everyone has long understood perfectly well that without the consent of the "top" this deal would not have taken place. At the same time, in this transaction, Sberbank gets not only the opportunity to advertise its products, but also receive data from all users of services such as Rambler. Mail. Therefore, unfortunately, we are now seeing the transformation of Sberbank and Yandex into super-conglomerates with state participation, repeating the experience of China, and not the experience of the largest companies that have become such without the participation of the state, such as Google. "
Last year, Sberbank has already acquired such companies as Speech Technology Center, Rabota.ru, 2GIS and others.
