Issuers Of The MICEX-RTS Innovation And Investment Market Platform UTINET.RU And Nauka-Svyaz To Be Added To The MICEX Innovation Index

Ordinary shares of JSC "Platform UTINET.RU" and OAO "Nauka-Svyaz" have been included in the constituent list of the MICEX Innovation Index effective from March 16, 2012 after a regular revision of the Index was carried out taking into account recommendations of the MICEX Stock Exchange Index Committee.

As a result, the MICEX Innovation Index will be calculated by stocks of ten innovative companies admitted to trading on the MICEX-RTS Innovation and Investment Market.

Presence of ten issuers in the Index allows establishing index funds.

According to Gennady Margolit, Executive Director of the MICEX-RTS IIM, the MICEX Innovation Index has been becoming the most important indicator to track the performance of the innovative sector of the Russian economy.