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Holding constituents Rambler Media and Afisha will be united within the framework of a single structure. The company will be built on the base of Rambler.

The General Director of the joined company will be Nikolay Molibog, who previously held the post of General Director at Afisha. Dmitry Stepanov and Yekaterina Kruglova, until recently deputy general directors at Afisha, will take on the positions of Products Director and Managing Director, respectively.

The issue is guaranteed by the parent company ProfMedia Limited. Nominal value of the issued bonds is RUB 3bln, maturity is 5 years (put option in 3 years). Semiannual coupon was set at 10.5% pa till put. Standard&Poor’s assigned a preliminary rating B+ to this issue.

Rambler Games is now four years old. Specially for the anniversary Rambler renewed its gaming project. The changes were made both to the design and the functionality of Rambler Games.

In Autumn 2010, Autoradio will host its trademark International Music Festival 80’s Disco for the ninth time. In 2010, one of the most popular nostalgic festivals ever promises to become an ultra-modern show using the 3D technologies.

Due to the fact that from the 1st of July Radio Alliance, the joint project of VKPM (Prof-Media Broadcasting Corporation) and RMG (Russian Media Group) will cease to exist, the management of the Prof-Media Broadcasting Corporation has made a decision to recreate within the structure of the company the commercial division which consists of the sales departments of Autoradio, Radio Alla, Umor FM and Radio ENERGY.

Rambler has released a new beta-version of one of its key products – Rambler News. This is one the first large launches in the series of services renovations planned by the company.

Internet-portal Rambler in collaboration with Paragon Software, Russian PC and mobile phone software developers, launched a joint project Dictionaries)(http://dict.rambler.ru), specially created on the basis of the on-line version of MultiLex electronic dictionary. The solution from Paragon Software, which allowed to put together six languages at once (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Uzbek), replaced the earlier version of Rambler’s on-line dictionary and considerable expanded the functions provided by this service.

VimpelCom Ltd. (Beeline brand) and Internet-portal Rambler have announced a launch of the special television supplement Rambler FOOTBALL for the users of the Beeline Home Digital TV. The supplement is fully dedicated to the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

One of such special screenings of the film Marmaduke took place on the 7th of June for the pupils of the special comprehensive school No. 77 at the Cinema Park at Oktyabrskoe Pole (Oktyabrskoe Field).

Multi-year agreement expanded to include digital media and events rights

Moscow/London, 2 June, 2010 – MTV Networks International (MTVNI), a division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), and ProfMedia Holding Co. and its subsidiary, Energia TV, today announced a multi-year agreement that will grant Energia TV the exclusive rights to continue broadcasting a free-to-air, localised MTV service in the Russian Federation.