VK : 2Q22 ESG Highlights

Q2 2022 ESG Highlights

Key Q2 2022 ESG Highlights

	Environmental
1	More than 915,000 students of
	grades 1-6 took part in the online
	Olympiad on ecology and the
	environment, which was held on
	the Uchi.ru online platform
2	VK Fest took care of the
	environment: a number of eco-
	initiatives were organized at the
	festival, such as separate waste
	collection, dishware made from
	recyclable materials, etc.
3	Dobro Mail.ru conducted a study
	on eco-habits: 56% of Russians
	kept their eco-habits after the
	pandemic
4	Uchi.Doma organized an online

camp for students in grades 1-11 with training on waste sorting, how to give things a second life, and how to take care of the environment in general

	Social
1	Mail.ru has introduced safe Children's mail with
	additional protection, with special design and no
	ads
2	Charitable Foundation "The Code of Kindness",
	created by VK for the development charity in
	Russia, summed up the results of work in 2021:
	over the past year, the fund received RUB 94.8mn,
	which is almost twice as much as in 2020
3	VK launched a program to help businesses: "Quick
	start in Vkontakte", which includes organic
	promotion on the social network, advertising
	discounts, advanced sales tools and priority
	support in working with the platform
4	VK has launched a special video project "The
	Career Time" on the platform "Russia - the Land of

Opportunities". "The Career Time" team talked to young VK employees to find out how it works in the IT industry. The first issue dedicated to game development has already gained more than

600,000 views

	Governance
1	We held a live broadcast about the
	UN Sustainable Development Goals
	for employees, and identified
	priority SDGs for VK
2	We were interviewed about ESG
	projects, related initiatives and VK
	strategy
3	We have started notifying users
	about the availability of
	recommendations for profile
	protection. The number of users
	who have strengthened the
	protection of their account through
	the feature is 2.5mn
4	As part of the VK Protect global

data protection program, VKontakte has implemented a special feature to protect user accounts and personal information from unscrupulous third-party application developers.

Environmental

VK Environmental activities

• Vkfest supported the environment. One of the participants of the festival was the "Separate Collection" movement, which helped organize related activities: containers for separate waste collection appeared at the festival venues in all cities, and volunteers organized collection, sorting and removal of recyclables. Food and drinks at VK Fest were served in dishes made from recyclable materials. Good quality food with suitable shelf life left after the festival went to animal shelters, as well as vinyl banners - they will come in handy for new booths
• Dobro Mail.ru, together with the ResearchMe agency conducted research on the environmental awareness of Russians. This year, more than 1,200 respondents took part in it: the majority of respondents (56%) have retained their eco-habitsafter the pandemic. And 81% of those who abandoned eco- activities during the period of coronavirus related restrictions have now returned to them
• VK Cloud Solutions introduced an updated platform for the Internet of Things - Cloud IoT Platform. On its basis, you can create applications for smart homes and smart cities, industrial automation and robotics, connected cars and smart utilities services. Initially, the system will be free for all developers of IoT services

Online Ecology Olympiad on Uchi.ru

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>915,000 students of grades 1-6 took part in the online Olympiad on ecology and the environment, which was held on the Uchi.ru online platform in the second quarter of 2022 (the number of participants increased by almost 100,000)

Most of the participants already knew the basic rules of behavior in nature to prevent fires and protect the forest. More than 55% of students in grades 1-6 coped with tasks on these topics

• In parallel with the online Olympiad in the regions of the country, >700 offline lessons on ecology, developed by the movement of environmental volunteers "Do!", were held, in which teachers and volunteers told schoolchildren about how a person can reduce the burden on the environment. >22,600 children participanted