Mail.Ru Group will be headed by the general director of VKontakte

Boris Dobrodeev, General Director of VKontakte LLC, also holding the post of director of strategy and development of Mail.ru Group, will be the General Director of the Russian Technological Company Group.

The report of Mail.Ru Group says that the current head of the company Dmitry Grishin intends to “focus on investments and strategies, including international expansion,” Interfax reports.

“Boris Dobrodeev will assume the leadership of current operating activities as a general director. - commented Grishin. “I will continue to participate in the management of the chairman of the board of directors.”

Dobrodeev will continue to participate in the VKontakte management, but already as a group of the CEO of the group, and the management of the current operational activity of the social network will remain with the Executive Director of VKontak Dmitry Sergeyev and the operating director Andrei Rogozov, the press service of Mail.ru Group explained.

Boris Dobrodeev, the son of the general director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev, previously worked in the DST Foundation, headed the Department of Administrative Offenses in Alisher Usmanov USM Advisors , and was also a member of the board of directors of Mail.ru Group . He came to VKontakte LLC in early 2014, together with Dmitry Sergeyev and Alexander Tretyakov, who previously worked in the structures of Usmanov, who owns VKontakte through Mail.ru Group .

In April 2014, the powers of the general director of VKontakte Pavel Durov were terminated . Soon after dismissal, he left Russia . In September 2014, Dobrodeev was appointed general director of VKontakte.

PS reports Interfax , the new Mail.ru Group CEO Boris Dobrodeev announced that the company is planning a “number of experiments with a signature model” for musical content in its products.

The press service of the group clarified that these experiments will affect only additional services, while basic functionality, including listening to music on the VKontakte social network, will remain free.

Musical content is in all social networks Mail.ru Group (VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, My World). The partnership agreements that Mail.ru Group and UMA signed with international copyright holders of musical products- Universal Music Group , Warner Music Group , Sony Music Entertainment and Merlin Network -provide for access to licensed musical and video content.