3Q21 ESG highlights

• The Group's rebranding into VK announced in early
  October comes as a natural progress of the ecosystem development strategy of the Group, announced in 2020 where the social network VKontakte was positioned as the central element
• Beyond its expected business related benefits, through rebranding we also seek to ensure the transition to an even deeper internal culture of collaboration, sharing and exchange of ideas, scaling successes internally, avoidance of any duplication of efforts and internal competition in our ultimate goal to create unifying technologies for all people

Remote work regime continues:

• Given the ongoing pandemic, we extended the remote work regime across all our offices until the end of 2021
• We encourage our employees to get vaccinated, including through the internal prize program, having reached 40% vaccination level among our staff in Q3

So does the onboarding & training:

• Onboarding and adaptation for new employees are being provided in a remote format, with the process having been fully automated
• All trainings have been done remotely since March 2020, with 2,900+ employees having completed trainings so far in 2021
• Each employee can complete a competency evaluation, according to the results of which the LXP will automatically generate a learning track - sort and load suitable learning materials
• In the meantime, peer-2-peerlearning access stimulates knowledge sharing and growth in hard as well as soft skills

• We rebranded our internal training platform into Study (former WORK) and added new courses on hard and soft skills
• Catalog includes 25 topics and 20 competencies, with interactive recommendations
• Study provides visualization of progress around set development goals and materials studied
• There are already 200+ units of content across multiple different formats (feeds, videos, long reads)
• Registration for trainings is organized with a choice of dates and a virtual queue for trainings with limited capacity
• Chat bot is used to track attendance
• Employees can upload own content, as well as leave comments, ratings and recommendations to colleagues, making the system highly interactive and social