A new record in the volume of open interest on contracts traded on FORTS was set. At the end of the trading session of April 30th, 2008 the volume of open interest reached 9091606 contracts or 15,59 bln. US dollars.

During the week of March 31st – April 4th, 2008 RTS Index is up by 0,47% and reached 2059,05 (2049,40 as of March 28th, 2008). Leaders of positive impact on RTS Index became: Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) - 14,69 points, Surgutneftegas ordinary shares (SNGS) - 4,35 points and JSC Uralkali ordinary shares (URKA) – 4,15 points.

The following securities transferred from Quotation list "B" are admitted to trading on OJSC "Russian Trading System" without listing procedure:

OJSC "Bank "Saint Petersburg" was approved as a General Clearing Member on FORTS by RTS Derivatives Market Commission.

Additional issue of JSC "TGK-6" ordinary shares was admitted to trading on OJSC "Russian Trading System" (state registration number 1-01-55091-E-013D of January 24th, 2008) in the number of 570 037 243 440 shares. Shares of primary and additional issues will be traded under a single ticker (Classic Market ticker – TGKF, T+0 Market ticker – TGKFG).

During the trading session a record number of trades in option contracts on FORTS was registered with the number of trades reaching 4343.

Over the week of April 28th – 30th, 2008, Russian Trading System Index went down by 0,31% and reached 2122,50 points (2129,15 points as of April 25th, 2008). Leaders of negative impact on RTS Index became: OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL" ordinary shares (GMKN) (-4,42 points), JSC Uralkali ordinary shares (URKA) (-3,45 points), Mechel ОАО ordinary shares (MTLR) (-3,38 points).

For the week of April 21st – April 25th, 2008 RTS Index went down by 2,15% to reach 2129,15 points (2175,92 points as of April 18th, 2008). Leaders of negative impact on RTS Index became ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – 7,65 points, Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – (7,18 points) and RAO UESR ordinary shares (EESR) – 6,98 points.

On April 28th, 2008 a record volume of open interest on US dollar futures and option contracts was registered. At the end of the trading session of April 28th, 2008 the volume of open interest stood at 1,097 mln contracts, which equals 1,097 billion US dollars.

A FIX Gateway is being developed for the Russian Trading System (RTS) Stock Exchange by software developer Devexperts, and has been launched in a testing stage on FORTS, the derivatives trading system of RTS Stock Exchange.

Ludmila Urskova was appointed head of the Department for Regional Policy and RTS Issuers Relations.

On April 14th, 2008 trading in the following securities included into Quotation list "B" will start on OJSC "Russian Trading System":