OREANDA-NEWS. May 06, 2011. Dear participants in the MICEX markets,

On Monday, May 9, 2011, trading in the MICEX Group’s markets will not be held due to public holidays in Russia.

Beginning May 10, trading in all markets will be held as usual.

The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange or MICEX is one of the largest universal stock exchanges in the Russian Federation and East Europe. MICEX opened in 1992 and is the leading Russian stock exchange, there are about 239 Russian companies listed and a market capitalization of US\\$950. billion as of December 2010.

MICEX consists of about 550 participating organizations and members, which do trading for their clients. In 2006 the volume of transactions on the MICEX reached 20.38 trillion rubles (754.9 billion USD), representing more than 90% of the total turnover of the leading stock exchanges in the Russian stock market.