LiveJournal beta users – members of the community http://lj-ru-beta.livejournal.com - now can benefit from an upgraded commenting form for journals in S1 style and its new design, created by Artemy Lebedev Studio.

In his new position Dmitry will be responsible for business development of Gazeta.ru and Championat.com, including monetization of these platforms.

International digital media company SUP Media, one of the top 5 holdings of the Russian internet by audience coverage (according to TNS data), today announces the appointments of Ilya Dronov as Head of LiveJournal Russia and Anton Nossik as Media Director of SUP Media. Current Head of LiveJournal Russia Svetlana Ivannikova is leaving the company to pursue her own business.

Friday night saw the first blogshop fashion show ever staged in Singapore. Hosted by LiveJournal.sg, the event attracted over 200 guests including top bloggers and blogshop owners as well as local celebrities, online business executives and the media.

LiveJournal users may experience difficulties with access to the service.

Socio-political online edition "Gazeta.ru" and association "In defense of the rights of voters "VOICE" with the purpose of generalization of complaints on the expected violations during the election campaign for election to the State Duma, on September 12, 2011, launch a joint project "Map of violations at the election."

Now any LiveJournal user can post a link to his own entry on the main page of LiveJournal.com and LiveJournal.ru.

On the night from 6 to 7 of September, 2011, in LiveJournal the new system of records rating calculation is introduced.

Leveraging off a massive e-commerce activity in Singapore, LiveJournal - the world’s first blogging and social media platform - announced today the launch of a Singapore country portal at www.livejournal.sg.

Users may still experience difficulties with access to LiveJournal.

Readers of online newspaper "Gazeta.ru" will now be able to watch news videos in user friendly from on YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/gazetaru.

"Gazeta.ru" introduces new official mobile application for owners of Samsung smartphones based on the Bada OS.

In the new updated LiveJournal there is the possibility to express gratitude to the author of the favorite entry.

On the official account of the leading Internet edition "Gazeta.Ru" — http://twitter.com/#!/GazetaRu — have already signed up more than 30 thousand users of the micro blogging service Twitter.

LiveJournal users have new opportunities.

The world’s first blogging and social media platform, LiveJournal.com, announced today that it has appointed Tickled Media, a leading Singapore online publishing house, to be their official representative in South-East Asia and India.

On Sunday, May 29, the five millionth account in the Russian-speaking segment of LiveJournal was registered.

SUP Media, an international media digital company, which manages popular web sites such as LiveJournal, Gazeta.Ru, Championat.ru, Quto.ru and advertising agency +SOL, is launching a unique Russian travel site Redigo.ru on May 16, 2011.

All LiveJournal.com users can appreciate the advantages of a Paid Account for free from March 2.

Ruslan Medved is a member of the SUP executive team as the Commercial Director from February 2011.
 

LiveJournal news digests, launched in test mode in November 2010, are now available to all mass media.

A free SMS notifications service has been made available to all MTS subscribers since December 29, which monitors LiveJournal.com events.

LiveJournal.com, the popular blogging platform, has launched wish lists in collaboration with the largest Russian online shop Ozon.ru.

The media project LiveJournal.ru turns three in December.

A momentous event happened on LiveJournal in November; the 200 millionth post has been registered in the Cyrillic segment.

The blogosphere digest LJTimes is now available on m.livejournal.com, Gazeta.ru and on Twitter.

LiveJournal launched the first own media project "Zhivoy Club" talk show, where bloggers discuss the most important political, social and cultural events in Russia.

LiveJournal.com users can express the wishes to fight Moscow traffic jams till November 30, 2010. The constructive suggestions will be forwarded to the Moscow City Government.

Every Internet user can add the LiveJournal widget to the Yandex main page from November, 15th.

The blogging platform LiveJournal.com was nominated for "Premia Runeta 2010" in several categories. There are "State and Society", "Culture and Mass communications" and "Public vote". Championat.ru was nominated in "Health and Rest" and "Public vote" categories.

New LiveJournal feature is available from November 3rd. Users can expand dynamic comment threads without journal or community page refreshing.

LiveJournal Maps became available on AlterGeo.ru and on AlterGeo mobile applications from October 2010. AlterGeo users can see the places described in LiveJournal.com, and cross-post activity from AlterGeo to their blogs on LiveJournal.com.

LiveJournal.ru launched a new version of Zhenskiy Zhivoj Zhurnal at October 22nd, 2010. The main differences of updated ZhZhZh are changes in the structure of the material and simplified navigation by headings and archives.

In accordance with ComScore, Inc, statistics SUP Media covered 23 percent of Russian Internet audience in August, 2010. People from Russia prefer to use combined services.

On Monday, 11th of October, 2010, the 4-million Cyrillic account in LiveJournal has been registered.

‘VimpelCom’ (‘Beeline’) provides an opportunity to take advantage of free LiveJournal SMS notifications starting from October 12th.

The new version of LJTimes is available to all LiveJournal Cyrillic users from October 5th.

LiveJournal.com, a blogging platform, start up the new project LJTimes on September, 28th.

Community stars365 specially created for those who wants to know everything about celebrities in their “natural habitat” established a new record. Last week SUP’s analysts fixed 200% growth of pageviews.

BBC Students’ Club bbcstudentsclub is now live on the largest Russian-language blogging platform, LiveJournal.com. The new online community is aimed at both students of journalism and students of English.

Facebook users, who have no LiveJournal account yet, may log into LiveJournal using their Facebook account.

On Friday, 27th of August, 2010, the 26-million account in LiveJournal has been registered.

Every day the number of LiveJournal’s users becomes more and more. On June, 3rd, 2010 25000000 account in LiveJournal has been registered, after three months this figure has increased by 1 million.

In the beginning of August SUP Fabric’s project for travel fans LJonMap has changed its address to maps.livejournal.com and its name to LiveJournal Maps.

In connection with heightened interest to a theme of accounts deleting Live Journal’s management considers it necessary to explain a current situation in detail.
At the moment journals are not being deleted due to inactivity, and any messages indicated the opposite are contrary to fact.

Multimedia content of LiveJournal, Championat.ru, Gazeta.ru and Quto.ru will be delivered to Internet users of Russia and Ukraine at speed and without delays.

The international Internet Company SUP expands cooperation with NGENIX, the largest Russian CDN operator (Content Delivery Network) which sets three new platforms in commercial operation in Kiev, Krasnodar and Kazan in July, 2010.
 

«SUP» Company - is one of the leaders of internet media market developing effectively projects like LiveJournal, Championat.ru, Gazeta.ru performs new product – an auto portal Quto.ru.

Today LJ team is launching the new project - displaying LJ on the map of the world.

On 12 March, 2010 five years have passed since the date of foundation of sport portal "Championat.ru".
For the last years it has passed a long way from a small site which reported only events of the Russian football to a respectable multisports resource where visitors can find all relevant information about events of national and world sports. Photo spread and video from important events and competitions are also avaliable here.
Thanks to the efforts of "Championat.ru" team portal visitors can regularly explore new sections, services and possibilities.
 

In new season of RFPL "Championat.ru" will offer its users essentially new approach to carrying out text online. Uniqueness of service will compare our broadcasting favourably with any others in the Russian segment of the Internet.

LiveJournal launched Your Journal – Your Money a new service which offers users the chance to earn money from their Journals.

“Championat.ru”, leading sport site in RUnet, launches new project – www.fanat.ru

Users of LiveJournal.com Championat.ru now have access to unique services: communication on these sites and also with the help of downloaded branded programs.

Microsoft and SUP announced the joint launch of new services LiveJournal Messenger and Fanat Messenger in Russia. The two new items that have been developed on the platform of Windows Live, developed for instant messaging and are designed to make communicating with friends online fun and convenient. During the month to users of LiveJournal.com and Championat.ru will be available web-based version of the products, and soon after that they will be able to install them as a programs.

LiveJournal Inc., one of the world's most respected community publishing platforms, today announced that the company has completed an advertising sales representative agreement with MediaCorp.  Headquartered in Singapore, MediaCorp will be responsible for advertising sales and campaign delivery for LiveJournal advertisers in Singapore.

SUP’s media sales house +SOL will be responsible for selling advertising inventory on Gismeteo.ru, the most popular and best regarded weather site in Russia.

Ukraine’s leading online advertising sales, FISH, today signed an exclusive contract which gives them the exclusive right to sell the Ukrainian traffic for LiveJournal.com throughout 2009. This advertising will be targeted to the growing community of LiveJournal users in Ukraine.

LiveJournal Inc today announced a restructuring of their US and Russian operations to more effectively manage costs in light of the global economic downturn.

Annelies van den Belt was promoted today to the position of CEO of SUP, a growing international online media company. Previously, Ms. van den Belt had been General Manager of SUP’s Russian operations. SUP’s founder and first CEO, Andrew Paulson, will take up the position as Chairman of SUP’s Board of Directors.

LiveJournal is to launch, Ж Men, Russia’s first online TV series in to be broadcast by a social media platform. The concept for Ж Men was created by an in-house team in SUP, LiveJournal’s owners, and developed in partnership with M.A.M.A. a production company, whose team previously worked on many us high-profile projects for Russian TV.

 

SUP, one of Russia’s fastest growing online media companies, and Kommersant Publishing House, one of Russia’s most prestigious media businesses, have agreed to extend their online partnership. In return for a significant investment Kommersant have acquired an equity stake in SUP. Kommersant will also have the right to appoint two members to the SUP board.

LiveJournal Inc., one of the world's leading global online communities, today announced that Matthew Berardo has joined the company as Vice President and General Manager. Berardo will lead the LiveJournal team from its Californian home. He will report to Andrew Paulson, CEO of SUP, the owners of LiveJournal.com.

LiveJournal, Inc., one of the world’s leading online communities, announced it will open nominations today for its first ever Advisory Board user elections.

BBC World Service has taken its engagement with user-generated content to a new level thanks to a joint project with the leading Russian-language blogging platform, LiveJournal.com. The joint global project, Live Report provides a unique platform for the Russian-speaking blogging community. It connects bloggers with the BBC Russian website, bbcrussian.com, via Russia’s largest blogging platform, LiveJournal.

SUP today announced that Annelies Van Den Belt will be joining their executive team as its new Russian General Manager on June 1^st. Ms Van Den Belt will have responsibility for all of SUP’s operations in Russia and the former USSR. In addition to her Moscow-based role she will oversee the development of revenue streams worldwide.

LiveJournal, Inc., one of the world’s leading online communities, today announced the first appointments to its advisory board. Comprised of some of the technology industry’s most thoughtful and influential leaders, the new LiveJournal Advisory Board will guide LiveJournal, Inc. in the operation and development of the LiveJournal platform.

SUP announced today that LiveJournal is open for business in Ukraine and signed a partnership agreement with Ukrainian Media Holdings.

Under the agreement Ukrainian Media Holding acquires the exclusive right to sell LiveJournal advertising in Ukraine. In addition to this, SUP has integrated commenting functionality for LiveJournal users with Obozrevatel portal (www.oboz.ua) and Kommersant newspaper (www.kommersant.ua).

LiveJournal, Inc.today announced that Jason Shellen will join the company as vice president of product development.

New team to develop LiveJournal in U.S. and globally. Online user poll offers chance to join new Advisory Board.

SUP announced today an exclusive advertising sales partnership between +SOL, the online sales agency, and the leading global web service Yahoo! This new partnership will see Yahoo! traffic being sold to local advertisers for the first time. This advertising will be sold as part of the "foreign media and media resources" packages which +SOL recently launched. Yahoo! are joining Last.fm and The Times as part of this portfolio.

+SOL Agency, the media sales agency of SUP, announced today that it has reached agreement with the British newspaper The Times to become the exclusive seller of online advertising targeted at Russian users of the newspaper’s website, TimesOnline.co.uk.  +SOL have also secured the first advertising campaign for the site by reaching agreement with Land Rover to carry their brand’s latest brand campaign on TimesOnline.co.uk.

SUP announced today the exclusive partnership with the largest international social music site Last.fm. The companies will launch joint marketing initiatives through LiveJournal, while +SOL, the online services agency of SUP, will develop joint advertising and sales campaigns for the Russian market.

SUP's senior management team organized a session at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. The panelists included representatives from leading Web businesses in Europe and the Middle East. Andrew Paulson highlighted the unique nature of the Russian internet market, the rapid take up of web services, the growth in advertising revenue and the spread of both broadband and mobile services.