A Russian ISP that took over operations of the Russian portion of LJ about a year ago under a licensing deal, triggering some drama and dire predictions at the time, mostly contained to the Russian-speaking corners (well, not "corners" really, since apparently that's a pretty large chunk of LJ) with just barely enough of the sturm und drang leaking out to where I could see it for me to know it existed but not enough to engage me the way 6A's missteps this spring and summer did.
MOre of a media company than an ISP; their other ventures are a Russian sports website, a advertising agency for social media, and an advertising agency that produces advertising for the internet...
http://www.sup.com/company.html [in Russian or English, but some pages are different in each language--the "employment" link being one of them...]. Following the links there indicates that SUP is run by Andrew Paulson, whose prior experience has primarily been in the publishing industry.
If you Google a bit, you find that SUP is owned by this fellow (Aleksandr Mamut):
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http://www.sup.com/company.html [in Russian or English, but some pages are different in each language--the "employment" link being one of them...]. Following the links there indicates that SUP is run by Andrew Paulson, whose prior experience has primarily been in the publishing industry.
If you Google a bit, you find that SUP is owned by this fellow (Aleksandr Mamut):
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
who has ties (see link above) to MDM Bank and Ingosstrakh (a large Russian insurance company), and was part of Yeltsin's government.