United Group International (at first simply called United Group) was a PC cracking/spreading group from Moscow, Russia, founded on 1 December 1987 by PCCH (later Joyrider), Batman and Power Ace, yet did only game spreading first and did not have any releases of its own until approx. 1991. Somewhen in mid-1992, the group renamed into United Group International when it began acquiring more and more international members and affiliated BBSs. The group became inactive in 1996, and while Joyrider planned to revive it in 1999, these plans did not seem to have materialised. The memberlist status reflects who still considered themselves UGi members in 1999.
A short group history by Joyrider from 2011 can be found here. A longer group history by the same author, on which the info above is based, was published in the Russian commercial paper magazine XAKEP (#9/1999) and is available through Wayback Machine.
