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Dmitry Mazepin looking good in potash wars

Russian oligarch Dmitry Mazepin, owner of chemical company Uralchem. © Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

While economic sanctions continue to rain down on Minsk, the potash company Uralkali, controlled by Russian oligarch Dmitry Mazepin's Uralchem, is prospering thanks to support from Moscow and hopes to take over its principal rivals in Belarus. [...] (558 words)

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Alexander Lukashenko
Alfa Bank
Belarusian Potash Company
Belaruskali
Dmitri Rybolovlev
Dmitry Mazepin
Dmitry Peskov
European Union
ING Bank
Natixis
Roman Protasevich
Rostec
Russian Fertiliser Exporters Association
Russo-Belarus Business Council
Sberbank
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Societe Generale
Stepan Poutilo
Uralchem
Uralkali
Vladimir Putin

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Belarusian-Russian businessman Dmitry Mazepin.

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Belarusian potash also at stake in Ukraine crisis

Lithuania is increasingly worried about the possibility of Belarusian potassium chloride provider Belaruskali falling into Russian hands, having already had to accept that the fertiliser was no longer exported via its ports. The potash producer's Russian competitor Uralkali is keeping an eager eye on the situation.

A Belaruskali potash mine in Soligorsk, Belarus.

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Dmitry Mazepin, propriétaire d'Uralkali et Uralchem.

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