VK (Originally VKontakte, Russian: ВКонтакте, literally “in touch”) is the second largest social network service in Europe afterFacebook. It is available in several languages, but particularly popular among Russian-speaking users around the world, especially in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, and Israel. Like other social networks, VK allows users to message contacts publicly or privately, create groups, public pages and events, share and tag images, audio and video, and play browser-based games.

As of January 2014, VK had at least 239 million accounts. VK is ranked 23 (as of November 25, 2013) in Alexa’s global Top 500 sites and is the second most visited website in Russia, after Yandex. According to eBizMBA Rank, it is 8th most popular social networking site in the world. As of January 2014 VK had an average of 55 million daily users.

In 2013, Mikhael Mirilashvili’s family, sold its 40% share in the company, receiving $1.12 billion for it from United Capital Partners, while Lev Leviev sold his 8% share in the same deal, giving United Capital Partners 48% ownership. In January 2014, VK’s founderPavel Durov sold his 12% stake in the company to the CEO of Megafon, which is controlled by Alisher Usmanov. Following the deal, Usmanov and his allies control around 52% of the company. Shortly thereafter, the CEO of Megafon, sold his 12% stake to Mail.ru, thus allowing mail.ru to consolidate their controlling stake of 52% in VK. Wikipedia

URL: http://www.vk.com