* 1998: Telenor buys VimpelCom in Russia to engage in former Soviet republics.
* 2002: Under President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Norway Telenor has entered a partnership agreement with the Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman, who Through its subsidiary Alfa Group becomes a partner in VimpelCom.
* 2004-2006: VimpelCom acquire telecom licenses in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Tajikistan and Armenia.
* 2006: VimpelCom buy two Uzbek mobile companies merged into VimpelCom daughter Unitel.
* 2007: VimpelCom enters into partnership agreement with the company Talikant makes Talikant to partner in Unitel. VimpelCom daughter Water Trail Industries pays according Klassekampen $ 25 million (168 million) for an Uzbek telecom license.
* 2010: CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas enters VimpelCom Board. Telenor owns 33 percent of VimpelCom shares, but 43 percent of the vote.
* 2011: New payment from VimpelCom Talikant at $ 30 million (202 million) for telecom licenses.
* 2012: Uppdrag investigation – Sweden’s answer to the focal point – reveals that Talikant is a mailbox company in Gibraltar owned by Gayane Avkayan, which has close ties to the Uzbek president’s daughter Gulnara Karimov. TeliaSonera paid $ 360 million (2.1 billion) for licenses. Top management at TeliaSonera resigns as a result of the revelations. The company is still under investigation.
* 2014: The Dutch and Swiss investigators initiates investigation of telecommunications companies established in Uzbekistan in March. Among these are VimpelCom and TeliaSonera. The class struggle publication 15 November documentation showing transfers from VimpelCom Talikant.
* Sources: class struggle, Dagens Næringsliv, NTB
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