VK (originally VKontakte, Russian: ВКонтакте, literally "in touch") is the largest Russian social network in Europe.[4] It is available in several languages, but is especially popular among Russian-speaking users, particularly in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Like other social networks, VK allows users to message each other publicly or privately, to create groups, public pages and events, share and tag images, audio and video, and to play browser-based games.[5]
As of November 2014, VK had at least 280 million accounts.[6] VK is ranked 22 (as of November 1, 2014)[7] in Alexa's global Top 500 sites and is the second most visited website in Russia, after Yandex.[8] According to eBizMBA Rank, it is the 8th most popular social networking site in the world.[9] As of January 2015, VK had an average of 70 million daily users.[10]