“Russia Calling” Investment Forum in Moscow

October 8th, 2009 MOSCOW, Russia - - Club KIFIR Gets Into a Discussion About Russia Being Prepared for Investments Finance & Investment Markets Players Club (KIFIR) and Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR), together with Financial Communications and Investor Relations Association (ARFI), are holding a round table - discussing an issue of long-term investments into Russia. The event is represented by experts from leading Russian and international organizations.

September 9th, 2009 MOSCOW - The Independent Software Developers Forum (ISDEF) is Organizing and Hosting ISDEF'2009, Their 8th Fall Conference. The Event Will Take Place on October 1-4, 2009 in Moscow, Russia.

August 18th, 2009 MOSCOW - On Thursday 27 August experts of Finance & Investment Markets Players Club (KIFIR - www.kifir.info) will be joined by the experts from Russia's Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR - www.riocenter.ru/en) to discuss the following: - Influence of financial crisis on different sectors of Russian economy during the period of September 2008 - September 2009; - Effectiveness of governments anti-crisis action scenarios for the given period; - Current status of Russia's financial sector: issues and tendencies; - Forecasts and recommendations based on analysis of current trends: theory and practice. The Club experts include representatives from Central Bank of Russia, State Duma, BP, Peter Hambro Mining, Finance Magazine and others.

July 12th, 2009 MOSCOW - Outside its borders, Russia was always famous for its creative achievements in arts and sciences. Plays of Russian writers still fill up theatres around the world.

July 8th, 2009 MOSCOW - - Club KIFIR Meeting - Thursday 9 July 2009 Celebrity guests: Actors of theatre and film Gosha Kutsenko (www.kutsenko.ru) and Misha Gorevoy (www.gorevoy.ru). KIFIR (Finance & Investment Markets Players Club), together with the Club of business contacts "Partners", offers its members to take their minds off daily issues for one evening and delve into the creative world of theatre and cinema.

June 23rd, 2009 MOSCOW - - Baker Botts Lawyers Counsel Russian Oil, Gas Company in Complex Oil Supply Transaction A US $15 billion loan agreement between Russian oil and gas company Rosneft and the Chinese government is the first step in the development of a major oil supply contract between the two countries. The agreement, which closed in April of 2009, is one of the largest private loans booked in Russia this year.

May 13th, 2009 MOSCOW - May 19, 2009, Berlin, Germany - Venue: ADLON Hotel - Non-profit Partnership (Moscow, Russia) At the forthcoming IV International Conference the main discussions will arise around the possible consequences of passing the 3rd legislative package for the internal EU energy market, as well as the outcome of the Prague meetings on the and. Various international gas pipeline projects are expected to be discussed.

April 26th, 2009 TOKYO - NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced on April 27 that following the establishment of NTT Communications Russia LLC in Moscow, Russia this past January, the wholly owned subsidiary will now set up a branch office in St. Petersburg, and, in addition, two other NTT Com subsidiaries will respectively set up branches in Brussels, Belgium and Neemrana, India, all within the current business quarter.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London, 20 April 2009 At a time of great uncertainty in world markets, the latest Russia Investment Roadshow gave foreign observers a unique opportunity to hear firsthand about the latest changes across Russia, and to identify the most promising trade and investment opportunities the country has to offer, while offering Russian organisations a high profile platform to continue to reach out to international investors and other partners. Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090415/344206 There were over 400 participants, including Hans-Joerg Rudloff, Chairman, Barclays Capital; Pavel Teplukhin, Managing Director, Troika Dialog Group and Chairman, Troika Dialog Asset Management; Igor Yurgens, Chairman, Institute of Contemporary Development; Oleg Kiselev, Adviser to Director General, Rusnanotech; Dmitry Afanasiev, Chairman, Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners; Andrew Somers, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia; Kirill Dybsky, Editor, Itogi Magazine; Andrei Donskikh, Chairman of the Board, Uralsib Bank; Leonid Vindman, Managing Director, Head of IB Origination for Russia and CIS, Unicredit, Juliana Slaschova, President, Mikhailov and Partners; Kevin Dougherty, Portfolio Manager, Pharos Financial Group; Aaron Goldstein, Deputy Director, International Listings, NYSE Euronext; Aida Sitdikova, Principal Banker, Power and Energy Utilities, EBRD Energy Business Group.

April 14th, 2009 LONDON - Russia Investment Roadshow, the leading annual Russian business event in London, will be held at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on Monday 20 April 2009 (www.russiaroadshow.com/eng/2009/). www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090415/344206 Once again, this event will give Western observers a unique opportunity to hear firsthand about the latest changes across Russia, and will offer Russian organisations a high profile platform to continue to reach out to foreign investors and other partners.

July 28th, 2009 Reputed Russian 'godfather' wounded in MoscowMOSCOW — Moscow police say a gunman has wounded Vyacheslav Ivankov, whom U.S. prosecutors have called a godfather of Russian organized crime.

September 19th, 2009 MOSCOW - Sberbank, one of the members of a consortium set to buy carmaker Opel, said the transfer of the company's technological know-how to Russia is a non-negotiable part of the deal, the Interfax news agency reported Saturday. "If the import of technologies doesn't take place, then we will have just wasted our time," said German Gref, the head of the Russian bank, at an economic forum in the Russian city of Sochi.

June 15th, 2009 Iranian president puts off Russia tripMOSCOW — The Iranian Embassy in Moscow says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has put off a visit to Russia, and it is unclear whether he will come at all. Ahmadinejad had been expected to travel to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg and meet on Monday with President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of a regional summit.

September 23rd, 2009 Reports: Moscow not ruling out new Iran sanctionsMOSCOW — Russian news agencies are citing an official in the Russian delegation in New York as saying Moscow does not rule out new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programs. The reports are the first indication that Russia could support additional measures to punish Iran for its defiance of the international community.

September 18th, 2009 Russia's PM Putin urges foreign investmentSOCHI, Russia — Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged foreign businessmen Friday to invest in Russia, promising to remove bureaucratic hurdles, and called for currencies besides the dollar to be used as reserves amid "uncontrolled" U.S. debt. "Russia's economy is totally underinvested," and state spending alone is not enough to support a recovery, Putin said at an international investment forum in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, which is to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.

April 13th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia concluded its first weapons deal with Israel, purchasing unmanned spy planes valued at around $49 million, a spokesman for the Russia Defence Ministry in Moscow told daily Izvestiya Monday. According to a military export cited by the paper, the purchase was in reaction to the August 2008 war in the south Caucasus - where Georgia successfully employed such drones against Russia.

September 30th, 2009 Russia seeks guarantees on new US missile plansMOSCOW — Russia's envoy to NATO on Tuesday called for guarantees from Washington that a revised U.S. missile defense plan won't threaten Moscow.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be visiting Russia separately in next five months to discuss strategic issues of bilateral cooperation, including defence, nuclear energy, trade and space. Patil will pay a state visit in September followed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trip to Moscow for the India-Russia Annual Summit in December.

January 18th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia and Ukraine clinched an agreement Monday ending a protracted dispute that froze gas shipments to Europe for nearly two-weeks. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko were shown on Russian television presiding over the signing of a new contract on gas prices and transits between the two states in Moscow.

January 9th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia Saturday gave its approval to a European Union (EU) proposal for international observers to monitor Russian gas deliveries via Ukraine. An agreement to this effect was signed as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Czech Premier Mirek Topolanek - acting in his EU presidency capacity - looked on.