Russia's Mail.Ru ends VKontakte dispute with $1.5 billion deal

Sep 16 2014 8:07AM EST | Source: REUTERS Technology

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mail.Ru Group , majority-owned by Russia's richest man Alisher Usmanov, has resolved a shareholder dispute over the country's biggest social network VKontakte (VK), buying out a rival co-investor for $1.47 billion.