Sup spams the Russian LiveJournal on the eve of its purchase

Many well-known users of LiveJournal.com received a message on behalf of Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal.com, who arrived in Moscow recently. In the message they are invited to a "Brad FitzParty" on Wednesday evening. On this same day a press conference will be held at the headquarters of Sup-Fabrik, involving Fitzpatrick and Barak Berkowitz, CEO of Six Apart, to which LiveJournal belongs.

At the press conference SUP-Fabrik CEO Andrew Paulson and the head of its blog service (CBO) Anton Nosik will talk about the deal, under which SUP receives a licence to support and develop the Russian-language part of LiveJournal. Nosik has previously declared that their company will not go bust even if his "pessimistic" forecast for the growth of the blogosphere on the .ru zone for the coming year fails to materialize (an increase in the number of bloggers from a million to two and a half million and a rise in the number of readers from the current 6-7 million to 15-20 million).