RNP (Russian National Programming)

On April 3, 2012 it became known that the owner of ChronoPay Ltd (Chronopay) Pavel Vrublevsky prepares the transaction on sale to the company and creates media holding RNP (Russian National Programming).

The company will be engaged in investments into e-commerce and mass media, P. Vrublevsky in an interview to Interfax reported.

He did not call future buyer of Chronopay, having noted that he decided to leave this asset as he received the good offer and needs means for the new project. "I was engaged in Chronopay since 2003, outside 2012. For me business is a possibility of self-expression. I want to begin something new", - P. Vrublevsky told.

According to him, now RNP closes the deal on acquisition of "The financial newspaper" which then the IT application is going to recover and add to it. Besides, RNP intends to purchase the Internet portal "Webplanet". "But negotiations on purchase of this asset, we, unlike negotiations on "The financial newspaper", did not complete yet. We expect their success. All command of Webplanet waits for work, and we - money from sale of Chronopay", - P. Vrublevsky told.

The newspaper and the portal will become a basis for new electronic business which details the owner of Chronopay does not disclose yet. For its creation P. Vrublevsky will need joint financing. "It is not a pipe dream, but absolutely specific idea with real business filling, and rather serious. I bear it already few years, but she demands serious financing. There will not be enough money which I will receive from Chronopay sale, most likely. I will look for anyway partners", - he told.

"We will do strong online project, and media which we bring together will become its component. Plus is that we will not be tied to profitability of media, our main objective - in the management plan media assets - that they worked closer to zero. The idea of the project fresh, is not a mimicry, we do not want to copy anybody, to create the fifteenth Groupon or the sixteenth Facebook", - P. Vrublevsky noted.

In RNP the family fund of P. Vrublevsky will have a control. Now registration procedures of the company come to the end.

In addition to the root RNP project is going to invest in other assets in an e-commerce segment. "Besides, as investment company, we will advise and help, naturally, the Russian business", - P. Vrublevsky told. "Let's be always ready to help to deal with e-commerce, to prompt what assets should be bought. RNP will act as the co-investor", - he noted.