On the first day of February, 2008 Managing company of B.I.N.BANK started to form 2 new sectoral index funds: Open index unit investment fund "B.I.N.BANK "Russian Trading System Index – Oil & Gas"* and Open index unit investment fund "B.I.N.BANK Russian Trading System Index – Electric Utilities".

During the week of January 28th – February 1st, 2008, Russian Trading SystemIndex is down by 3,15% and reached 1968,97 (2033,09 as of January 25th, 2008). Leaders of negative impact on Russian Trading SystemIndex became the main "blue chips": ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (-11,56), Sberbank (SBER) (-10,19), OJSC "OC "Rosneft" (ROSN) (-8,56).

The Federal Financial Markets Service informs, that the information, published earlier on the FFMS page in the Internet in the section "Mergers and displacements" in respect to JSFC "Sistema", that this company was given an order to bring mandatory offer to buy securities of URALSIB Bank into compliance with the legislation requirements of the Russian Federation, is invalid.

ROSSIYSKIY KREDIT BANK JSC has become a new member of electronic ("anonymous") trading on the RTS Classic market.

On February 4th, 2008 trading in the following securities, which are included in Quotation List "B", starts on OJSC "RTS": ordinary shares of "Yenisei TGC (TGC-13)", Classic market ticker – TGKM, T+O ticker –TGKMG.

On January 25th, 2008 trading in JSC "Yenisei TGC (TGC-13)" ordinary shares will be suspended on Russian Trading System. (Classic market ticker – TGKM, T+O ticker – TGKMG) due to the issuer’s information about state registration of the report on the result of the issue of ordinary shares (state registration number of the issue is 1-02-55093-Е as of December 27th, 2007), placed through conversion after share split.

On January 25th, 2008 quotation of ordinary and privileged shares of LUKoil-Nizhegorodneftejrgsintez will be stopped (Russian Trading System Board tickers - ngns, ngnsp) on the basis of information about shareholder’s claim to redeem the stated securities in accordance with the Federal Law "On Joint-Stock Companies", article 84.8.

According to the decision taken by the Russian Trading System Derivatives committee as of January 24th, 2008 the size of the basic (minimal) initial margin is increased for the following futures contracts on FORTS:

By the results of 2007 trading volume on FORTS grew threefold (177,4% in rubles) comparing with the same value of 2006 and reached its record value. The number of trades increased more than twofold. All in all, on FORTS there were registered 11,7 mln trades with 144,9 mln contracts or 7,5 trillion rubles.

Starting from September 17th, 2007 the use of this technology by the Russian Trading System trading participants became possible for settling transactions not only at clients-nonresidents expense, but also at the expense of clients-residents and at the expense of own funds of a trading participant.

A new version of “Electronic Agreement Centre” (EAC) software (3.2) has been put into operation, which allows to exchange all electronic documents and conclude contracts of any format. Such a document can be sent in the form of a text message or an enclosed file. Moreover, the document can be signed by a counterparty.

From January 21st, 2008 the following securities, which are transferred from the Quotation List “B”, are admitted to trading on A1-Level Quotation List: