Wildberries faces new crisis as Tatyana Kim’s empire comes under strain
What’s new: The pressure follows a bitter feud with Kim’s ex-husband that already spiraled into a deadly shooting near Red Square.
Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online marketplace, is under mounting pressure as billionaire co-founder Tatyana Kim confronts a new threat to the business empire that made her Russia’s richest woman. Kim built Wildberries into Russia’s answer to Amazon while navigating wartime Kremlin politics and a bruising struggle with her ex-husband, Vladislav Bakalchuk, the father of her seven children. That fight turned violent with a deadly shooting near Red Square. The latest challenge now threatens a company long seen as one of Russia’s biggest consumer-tech success stories.