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":

In accordance with the decision taken by the Russian Trading System Derivatives market committee on April 11th, 2008 the size of the minimal initial margins on the following futures contracts will be changed:

Effective April 21st, 2008 the procedure of providing evening clearing reports on Russian Trading System derivatives market will be changed – the reports will be distributed in two stages.

On April 10th, 2008 the following securities, admitted to trading on OJSC "Russian Trading System" without listing procedure will start to be traded:

During the week of March 24th – 28th, 2008 Russian Trading System Index is up by 4,31% and reached 2049,40 (1964,65 as of March 21st, 2008). Leaders of positive impact on RTS Index became: ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (41,78 points), OJSC "OC "Rosneft" ordinary shares (ROSN) (15,85 points) and Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – (15,45 points).

Effective April 7th, 2008 the following securities admitted to trading without listing procedure will start to be traded on OJSC "Russian Trading System":

In March 2008 Russian Trading System Index was going down, as compared to the end of February and by the end of the trading session as of March 31st, 2008 reached 2 053,93 against 2 063,94 as of the end of the previous month.

On April 8th, 2008 the following securities transferred from Quotation list V will be admitted to trading on Russian Trading System in Quotation list B: