OREANDA-NEWS. On November 19, 2008 Russian Railways fully placed a 5-year semi-annual non-convertible 15 billion rouble Series 09 bond by open subscription on Moscow’s MICEX stock exchange. The bond carries a coupon rate of 13.5% and a put option for early redemption after 18 months, reported the press-centre of Russian Railways.

The issue was arranged by Vneshtorgbank, Gazprombank, Sberbank, TransCreditBank and Troika Dialog and assigned state registration number 4-09-65045-D.

The following Russian Railways bonds are outstanding: 03 Series for 4 billion roubles, maturing in December 2009, Series 05 (10 billion roubles, maturing in January 2009), 06 Series (10 billion roubles, maturing in November 2010), Series 07 (5 billion roubles, maturing in November 2012) and Series 08 (20 billion roubles, maturing in November 2011).