Last week, Mail.ru Group, the LSE-listed Russian Internet giant, announced it now fully controls Vkontakte (VK.com), the leading Russian language social network with over 250 million registered ...

Mail.ru Group announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement to acquire an additional 12 percent stake in Vkontakte.ru, the leading Russian-language social network also known as VK.com. Should ...

The Russian web services firm Mail.ru has bought out VKontakte, the largest regional social network, thus consolidating Mail.ru’s control over the Russian social networking market and ending a complex ...

Ukraine has prolonged its ban on Russian websites VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru and Yandex. In the past, all of them were hugely popular in the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ...

Billionaire Alisher Usmanov took full control of VKontakte, with his Mail.ru Group Ltd. buying a remaining 48 percent in Russia’s most-popular social network for $1.47 billion. The all-cash purchase ...

A deal with UMG will allow VKontakte to fully switch to licensed music, replacing user-uploaded tracks and shedding the social network's reputation as the main source of illegitimate digital music… By ...

A media company owned by Kremlin-friendly tycoon Alisher Usmanov has paid $1.5 billion to gain full control of one of Russia's most popular social media websites, VKontakte. Mail.Ru, owned by Usmanov, ...

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