Renova Group is a large Russia

Russia

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Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...

 with interests in aluminium

Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal circumstances....

, oil

Oil

An oil is any substance that is liquid at ambient temperatures and does not mix with water but may mix with other oils and organic solvents. This general definition includes vegetable oils, volatile essential oils, petrochemical oils, and synthetic oils....

, energy, telecoms and a variety of other sectors. The main owner and president is Viktor Vekselberg

Viktor Vekselberg

Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg is the owner and president of Renova Group, a large Russian conglomerate.-Business empire:Victor Vekselberg was born in 1957 in Western Ukraine. He graduated from the Moscow Transportation Engineering Institute in 1979...

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The Renova Group is primarily active in Russia, the C.I.S. states

Commonwealth of Independent States

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, Switzerland, South Africa and the United States. Its major assets include participation in the oil company TNK-BP

TNK-BP

TNK-BP is a major vertically integrated Russian oil company. It is Russia's third largest oil producer and among the ten largest private oil companies in the world. TNK-BP is Russia's third largest oil company in terms of reserves and crude oil production...

 and in aluminum producer RUSAL.

In 2010 Renova Group entered into an agreement to provide funding for Fort Ross.