September 16, 2009, Moscow. IT Territory, a part of Astrum Online Entertainment and Monolit are proud to announce the signing of an agreement providing the multiplayer game ParaPa: City of Dance with the usage of compositions of the following performers: Boombox, Centr, Ligalize and Nastya Zadorozhnaya. The new tracks will extend the existing catalogue of the game, which already includes more than 100 licensed tracks.

The launch of the game in Russia took place in February of this year, and ParaPa is rapidly expanding ever since, extending its fan base. Today the project’s audience comprises of 500,000 users on five gaming servers, and more than a million unique users visit its web site www.parapa.ru every month. The growing collection of music tracks allows the creation of unique interactive projects within the game itself: for example, a new dance floor will open soon where only Russian rap will be played.

“We are very happy with this new mutually beneficial cooperation with Monolit”, says Vsevolod Leonov, vice-President of Development of Astrum Online Entertainment. “ParaPa: City of Dance is a media platform with impressive audience, and an opportunity to offer the largest possible collection of licensed tracks to the game’s fans is very important to us.”
Anton Pronin, General Director of Monolit production company and co-founder of Monolit holding, gives his comment: “Our company is a major player in the music industry. This is why it’s so important for us to keep up with the times. The online gaming market is developing actively, and we believe that cooperation with Astrum Online Entertainment, the leader in this market, could be very profitable for both parties.”

About the game:
ParaPa: City of Dance is the first dancing MMORPG in Russia. There are no swords here, no magic, and no fantasy heroes. There is always sunshine, and if people on the street ever squabble, they do it by dancing. The large virtual city is divided into theme-based areas: night clubs, beaches, parks and squares, where any style of music is played, from electronic to pop. The game was launched in Russia with an extensive track list consisting of songs performed by the best young Russian pop-bands, including Ranetky, Quest Pistols, Dasaev and many others.



About Astrum Online Entertainment:
Astrum Online Entertainment is the largest player in the Eastern European market of interactive online entertainment. Currently, the Corporation includes five companies: Astrum Nival (http://www.astrumnival.com), Nikita.Online (http://www.nikitaonline.ru), IT Territory (http://it-territory.ru), TimeZero (www.timezero.com) and DJ Games (http://www.djgames.com.ua/). The companies have successfully launched over thirty massive multiplayer online games, including such popular projects as Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (http://www.lotro-russia.com), Legend: Legacy of the Dragons (http://www.dwar.ru), the Territory (http://www.territory.ru), TimeZero (http://www.timezero.ru), Sphere (http://www.sphere.nikitaonline.ru), Piratia (http://www.piratia.ru), Perfect World (http://www.pwonline.ru) and many others. The total audience of Astrum’s projects has exceeded twenty million players in the beginning of 2009.

Astrum Online Entertainment prepares to release ten of its own gaming projects as well as six localized online games by its foreign partners during 2009. For more information please visit Astrum Online website at http://www.astrumonline.ru

About Monolit Group:
Monolit Group was founded in 1994 in Moscow. At this point it is the largest holding company in Russian music industry, which includes:

• Monolit Production – talent search and production, concert and tour organization, PR services, non-musical rights sales (sponsoring and advertizing contracts with artists);

• Studio Monolit – music albums and compilations releases, DVD releases;

• Monolit Trading – audio and video products releases and distribution, including technological line for media manufacturing: CD, DVD, MC;

• Monolit Publishing (legal protection to safeguard the rights of artists and authors, publishing and adaptation rights management, digital content sales through mobile devices and Internet);

• Music for movies production department – music for movies and TV series, promotion and marketing for movie and TV projects using musical material.