July 15, 2009, Moscow. COMSTAR – United TeleSystems (JSC COMSTAR-UTS, LSE: CMST), the leading supplier of integrated telecommunication solutions in Russia and the CIS, announces launch of a new service on STREAM24 multimedia portal (www.stream24.ru)  – STREAM.Kino virtual store where all Internet users may do their shopping.

STREAM.Kino is a shop window of a virtual store where users may buy movies, TV programs, sports programs, animated cartoons, music videos and another license video content. Now, the portal already contains more than 15000 files. This is where you can find very rare programs or singular documentaries dedicated to arts and celebrities as well as classical and modern movies not just in Russian, but in English, French, German, Italian, and Korean as well. A list of available movies and programs is being constantly replenished. STREAM.Kino project has been implemented jointly with OOO X-Media owning GetMovies.ru Internet resource.

“We continue to enhance opportunities of our joint portal of additional services – STREAM24 and we offer new multimedia services to all visitors. We have recently launched Stream.Knigi project that, just as STREAM.Kino, is also available to all users, not only those who are subscribers of STREAM Internet access and IP television services. The more opportunities we offer to our users, the more interesting our portal is, - says Yevgeny Abramov, COMSTAR-UTS Director for Marketing and Products and Services Development on the mass market. – Buying movies and archive programs in the virtual store is an exciting idea, first of all, because viewers may infinitely replenish their video libraries depending on their own tastes and preferences, now that on our portal we do not just have movies, but truly rare matter – for example, Goluboy Ogonek (Blue Shimmer) TV casts. Later we are planning to enrich our list of services and open an access to all portal users for some of the services that are now available only to users of STREAM broadband Internet access and interactive TV services. Today, this is music and games, software and virtual photo labs”.

For the customer to purchase a movie or a favorite program in STREAM.Kino store, it is necessary to become a registered user of STREAM24 portal. When registered, users shape up a virtual cart for their purchases, download videos in a specially protected format, DRM , and pay viewing licenses. To pay licenses, you may use any of a number of electronic payment systems available in Moscow or quite familiar instant top up payment terminals or banking cards and virtual money.

STREAM.Kino has a user-friendly and ergonomic search engine. You may search files you need by their names, directors, etc. Different filters (year of release, alphabetic arrangement, rating, etc.) allow our buyers to easily determine their whereabouts and find the required videos and TV casts.

Website of the service – www.kino.stream24.ru.