Rambler top managers go free on the eve of EGM

Several Rambler Media Ltd (LSE: RMG) top managers went on vacation before the Extraordinary General Meeting on March, 15. The head of Ferra.ru Anton Dergobouzov was first to leave and Rambler's office manager says Dergobouzov doesn't work there any more. Webplanet's sources report he's already got a new job. The head of Rambler project department Dmitry Pleshakov (discorded with chief technology officer Denis Kalinin) supposed to have a 'vacation' too. He'll rest until April, Webplanet's sources add. Two more vacationists might be Rambler's search manager Vlad Shabanov and nginx-developer Igor Sysoev.

Same time, IT-daily reports that Arthur Akopyan from Synterra has been named as Rambler's new finance manager. Other sources say that Rambler's major shareholder PM Invest Company Ltd welcomed McKinsey's consultancy to fix its newly acquired asset. McKinsey's people are "well-known" in Russian Internet for their "help" to build ambitious eStart.ru portal for Independent Media in 2000 (later called "the most expensive collapse of the year").

As we reported before EGM was called to consider the appointment of two new directors Vladimir A Pravdivy and Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper proposed by PM. Shareholders will also be asked to approve the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditors of the company for the fiscal year 2006 annual audit.