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This has been mentioned by multiple media organizations: Matthew Sparkes (2012-11-12). "Finsbury edited Alisher Usmanov's Wikipedia page". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-07-30. A British PR firm has deleted details of a Soviet-era criminal conviction and freedom of speech row from the Wikipedia entry of Alisher Usmanov, Britain's second-richest man, according to reports. {{ cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2020-11-11 suggested ( help) Omer Benjakob (12 May 2022). "The Fake Accounts Whitewashing Oligarchs' Wikipedia Pages". Haaretz. While the investigation fell short of linking these fake users and the farms they were part of to specific PR firms, Smallbones notes that "there is little doubt, however, that Alisher Usmanov hired the PR firm RLM Finsbury, who then edited his Wikipedia article."

Should it be added to this article that Alexei Navalny has called for sanctions against Alisher Usmanov? 173.88.246.138 ( talk) 06:12, 17 March 2021 (UTC) reply

That's too trivial. — kashmīrī  ^TALK 07:26, 17 March 2021 (UTC) reply

Here is a saved copy of the 2012 article in The Sunday Times, as reprinted by Ottawa Citizen, that first disclosed the infamous paid Wikipedia editing. It seems that this well-researched piece contained more details from Usmanov's past than what the subject would want it. Suffice to say that both the Times article (originally here), its Ottawa Citizen reprint (originally here), all the Archive.org copies of the two, and any links to both were soon purged from the Internet.

Sharing here because this unavailable publication remains one of the sources of this Wiki article. — kashmīrī  ^TALK 22:46, 19 December 2022 (UTC) reply