Today IT Territory, which is a part of Russia’s largest game holding company Astrum Online Entertainment, and Golden Telecom, Inc, a leading provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in Russia, announced the completion of the first step in their collaboration. They have launched together with a popular gaming portal Absolute Games a new gaming site called Battles.Ru. The site's target audience is very broad. Batteles.ru is trying to draw various entertainment seekers from the Ru Net sphere. The site has the best massively multiplayer and casual games published by IT Territory and the latest news from the gaming world provided by AG.ru.

“Our main objective is further the development of the Russian online game market, and Battlers.ru which we launched together with Absolute Games will help us to learn more about the preferences of the Russian gaming audience which is constantly becoming more and more sophisticated. This will allow us to keep producing interesting and original high-quality games”, - says Alisa Chumachenko, VP of Marketing at IT Territory.

“IT Territory is the leading player on the Russian online entertainment market. Taking into consideration that the audience of Absolute Games is reaching 250,000 people we are quite sure that Battles.ru will be not only popular but a commercial success”, - says Andrey Shevchenko, founder of AG.ru.

About Golden Telecom, Inc.
Golden Telecom Inc., which is a part of the VimpelCom Group, is a leading facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in the major population centers throughout Russia and other countries of the CIS. The Company offers voice, data and Internet services to corporations, operators and consumers using its metropolitan overlay network in major cities including Moscow, Kiev, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Almaty, and Tashkent, and via intercity fiber optic and satellite-based networks, including approximately 314 combined access points in Russia and other countries of the CIS.

About the AG.ru Gaming Portal
Russia’s largest gaming portal, launched in 1998, AG.ru has got a vast database of games, demo versions of games, game videos and screenshots along with the latest news from the gaming world.

About IT Territory
IT Territory, a developer and publisher of online games, is a part of Russia’s largest game holding company Astrum Online Entertainment. IT Territory is the number one company in the online sector of Russia’s game market. The total number of players registered in all the games operated by IT Territory has already hit 6 million people. IT Territory Casual, the casual game division of IT Territory, is the largest publisher of casual games in Russia and has its own comprehensive distribution network. IT Territory Nord is the internal development studio for casual games and also represents IT Territory in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 2007, IT Territory Nord is the largest casual game studio in Russia and Eastern Europe.