MRG again biggest social games developer in Russia

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Mail.Ru Group is the biggest social games developer in Russia

Moscow, March 28, 2011. Mail.Ru Group once again proved to be the biggest publisher and developer of the games for social networks in Russia and the CIS.

Mail.Ru Group is the leading developer of the social network games in Russia and the CIS according to the AppData.ru project. Total installs of the games developed by Mail.Ru Group exceeds 100 million.

"First place among the social network games developers in Russia and the CIS is a very important achievement for us,.. - says Vladimir Nickolskii, VP of Mail.Ru Group. "We intent to strengthen our position further as a developer and publisher and keep the leading position on the market. To ensure our leadership we are founding producing centers that are intended to help both beginners and experienced developers with presenting their games to the widest public possible...

The first Mail.Ru Group producing center is opened recently. Its task is to search, produce and publish promising games through the biggest social networks using all the producing and marketing resources of Mail.Ru Group. The center works with 5 new games already, which will be announced by Mail.Ru Group in the nearest future. In 2011 two more producing centers are to be opened. Full announcement of the centers is to be made on OGIC exhibition by Alexander Fadin, Head of Mail.Ru Group Social Games Department. The exhibition takes place from 8 to 10 April 2011 in Saint-Petersburg.

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About Mail.Ru Group

Mail.Ru Group is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world and the leading Internet company in Russia, based on global monthly unique users. We operate Russia's leading e-mail service and the two largest IM networks in Russia - Mail.Ru Agent and ICQ.

We operate two of the three largest Russian-language online social networking sites - My and Odnoklassniki.ru - and own a strategic minority equity stake in the social network Vkontakte.

In addition, Mail.Ru Group is developing popular e-commerce projects, enabling users to buy goods and services over the Internet and pay with e-money.

More than 40 thematic vertical sites, targeting various user categories, are leaders in their segments. Our media projects provide people with a wealth of information on a broad range of popular topics.

Mail.Ru Group is also Russia's largest online games company. The company's portfolio of online games includes 34 MMO games and more than 30 games for social networking sites.