Andrew Paulson

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Andrew Paulson (born in 1958, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American entrepreneur working in Russia. He is the son of noted American professor Ronald Paulson.

Andrew founded SUP[1], a Moscow-based Internet company, in 2006 a year after he sold Afisha Publishing House (Afisha Magazine, Bolshoi Gorod Magazine, and MIR), a business he founded in 1998. [1] Afisha Magazine is best known as a cultural and listings magazine in the former USSR and spawned a series of other titles. [2]

Prior to Afisha, Andrew developed several print publishing projects in Moscow: ‘’Delovie Lyudi’’ (Russian: Деловые люди), a business monthly which was the first glossy magazine in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union; ‘’Ponedyelnik’’ (Russian: Понедельник), a Time/Newsweek-like independent news/business weekly; and an entertainment bi-weekly, ‘’Vechernyaya Moskva’’ (Russian: Вечерняя Москва)).

As SUP’s first major transaction, Andrew led the LiveJournal licensing agreement with Six Apart that gave SUP rights to use the LiveJournal brand as well as operate portions of the LiveJournal service for Live Journal’s Russian userbase. On the 2nd December 2007 it was announced that SUP had acquired LiveJournal from Six Apart[3]


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  1. ^ Mercer, Martha. "A New Image of Russia", The New York Sun, March 13, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-21. 
  2. ^ Danilova, Maria. "Young PR Guru Goes From Kant to Shampoo", The Moscow Times, October 16, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-11-21. 
  3. ^ "LiveJournal Grows Increasingly Russian", NOVECON: Russia/CIS Telecommunications Press Digest, October 19, 2006. 

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