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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.

Two digital projectors from the Italian company Cinemeccanica, with Dolby 3D, will be installed in the largest premier hall with a capacity of 479 seats, at the Cinema Park Theatre in the Grand Canyon Shopping Centre. The new equipment will be installed in time for the premier of Shrek Forever After.

The founder of VKPM, the first president of the Russian Academy of Radio (RAR), and the vice president of NAT (National Association TV & Radio Broadcasters) by radio, Alexander Varin died suddenly and unexpectedly on December 2, 2009, at the age of 45.

The Avtoradio, Humor FM, and Radio Alla radio stations, all part of VKPM, were all awarded the most prestigious professional prize, Radiomania 2010.

According to information from the latest wave of research by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres) Media Research (January-March 2010), the Avtoradio’s daily audience across Russia numbered 9,600,300. Compared to the same period of the previous year, Avtoradio’s ratings were up 10%, or in real terms 896,000 listeners.

The chain opened a seven-screen cinema in the Marmelad Shopping Center in Vologda. Cinema Park theatres are distinguished by their particular designer approach to interior design. The new theatre in Vologda is no exception – the interior is laid out in an unusual style: guests unexpectedly enter into… an exotic oceanic island. Passing through the airplane entrance, guests find themselves in the central foyer, which is decorated with landscapes reminiscent of the work of Paul Gauguin. The unusual design is the work of Italian architect Saura Sermengi and will certainly appeal to all the audiences in harsh northern Vologda.

This unique project by radio station Avtoradio and Internet company Yandex has been launched at the national level. In addition to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Avtomonitor Avtoradio was launched in a number of other Russian cities – Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don, and Voronezh. Avtomonitor Avtoradio is a new technology that allows monitoring a city’s road situation in real time mode. With its help, users can get precise information about traffic jams, accidents, and road works, map out routes around jams, and help other motorists better orient themselves in the flow of traffic by informing them about changes on the roads. Users can also see other Avtoradio pilots – project participants – on the map.

During the World Championship in hockey, which will take place 7-23 May in Germany, many Russian cities will see Avtoradio Sports Bars open their doors. In Moscow, St. Petersburg, perm, Cheboksary, Kirov, Belgorod, Nizhnenevartovsk, and other cities, the radio station Avtoradio will once again bring together the most devoted hockey fans in order to support our team at the 2010 World Championships. Politicians, famous athletes, and show business representatives will come to cheer for our boys on the ice.

The Rambler Internet portal and the Gnostik company have announced their cooperation on developing new search opportunities. As a result of the search, Rambler will have new directory services, converters, and calculators from the WhoYOUgle project.

The company is planning to make a biopic about the director Sergei Paradzhanov. “The film Paradzhanov will be one of a group of films that will be in part funded by state money granted to Central Partnership in 2010,” said general director Ruben Dishdishyan.

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