According to Vedomosti, Vkontakte.ru, a Russian social networking website, develops its own payment system. The representative of Vkontakte.ru said that the company didn’t make its plans on new projects public beforehand.
A possibility to develop a payment system for a social networking website, serving more than 40 million accounts, was the subject of a big discussion at the last conference of the National Association of E-Trade Participants.
Vkontakte.ru has the internal system enabling its accounts to pay for services by so–called "voices" which can be used to pay, for example, for bonuses in games. But it is just the internal currency: it is impossible to turn “voices” into cash or some other kind of money legally.
Vedomosti
