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New Lists Of Shares For Calculation Of The RTS Indices Come Into Effect

Date 02/03/2011

From March 16, 2011 to June 15, 2011, new constituent lists of RTS Indices, approved by the OJSC "Russian Trading System" Stock Exchange on recommendation by the Index Committee, will be in force.

Ordinary and preferred shares of OJSC TNK-BP Holding, ordinary shares of JSCo "MIPC", "MOSTOTREST", PIK Group, "Bank "Saint-Petersburg" OJSC  will be transferred from the waiting list to the new constituent lists of the RTS Index. They will replace ordinary shares of OJSC Sibirtelekom, JSC CenterTelecom, OJSC "VolgaTelecom", OJSC N. W. Telecom, O.J.S.C.

Uralsvyazinform" which will be removed from the RTS Index, due to the reorganization of Svyazinvest Group of companies following the merger between regional telecommunications operators (RTOs) and Rostelecom. The shares of regional telecommunications operators may be removed from the RTS Indices earlier than on 16 March in case of the cessation of trading in these securities on RTS.  Ordinary shares of WBD Foods will also be removed from the RTS Index, due to their repurchase by PepsiCo.

The list of the RTS Standard Index shares will remain unchanged.

Ordinary shares of OJSC "Cherkizovo Group" will be included in the new list of the RTS-2 Index constituents. They will replace ordinary and preferred shares of OJSC Sibirtelekom, JSC CenterTelecom, OJSC "VolgaTelecom", as well as  ordinary shares of "UTK" PJSC, MGTS, OJSC N. W. Telecom, O.J.S.C. "Uralsvyazinform" and  WBD Foods. Ordinary shares of MGTS will be removed, due to a substantial decrease of a number of free-float shares.

Ordinary shares of OJSC Sibirtelekom and WBD Foods will also be excluded from the RTS Siberia Index and RTS Consumer & Retail Index respectively.

In accordance with the recommendation of the RTS’s Index Committee calculating and transmitting the RTS Telecom Index will be suspended on March 16, 2011.

Ordinary and preferred shares of OJSC TNK-BP Holding will be added to the RTS Oil & Gas Index from the waiting list.

Starting from 16 March RTS Standard market instead of RTS Classica will be used as the source of price values for the ordinary shares of JSC Gazprom Neft.

For some securities number of shares taking for the calculation of the RTS Indices will be changed, or coefficients reflecting a percentage of free-float shares (free-float coefficients) will be revised.

Summary table of the number of shares taken into account
in RTS Indices and the free-float coefficients

Ticker Securities Number of shares New number
of shares
Free-Float New
Free-Float
CHEP JSC Chelpipe, ordinary 472,382,880   14% 9%
GCHE OJSC "Cherkizovo Group", ordinary , 43,069,355   5%
GMKNS "OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL", ordinary  190,627,747   40% 35%
IRAO JSC "INTER RAO UES", ordinary 2,893,027,370,229   20% 30%
KHEL Kazansky Helicopter Plant, ordinary  154,089,390   20% 12%
MGNT ОJSC "Magnit", ordinary 88,975,073   26% 24%
MRKH JSC "IDGC Holding", ordinary 41,041,753,984 42,964,067,081 25%  
MSTT "MOSTOTREST", ordinary 248,240,000 282,215,500 13% 35%
MVID Opened Joint-Stock Company "Company "M.video", ordinary 179,768,227   30% 26%
OGKA JSC "OGK-1", ordinary  44,643,192,918 65,451,744,495 34% 29%
PRTK ОАО "PROTEK", ordinary 470,000,000 527,142,857 20%  
TNBP OJSC TNK-BP Holding, ordinary  14,996,968,366     4%
TNBPP OJSC TNK-BP Holding, preferred  450,000,000     100%
UFMO Joint Stock Company "Ufa Engine Industrial Association", ordinary 266,106,022 284,483,373 17%  
VTBRS JSC VTB Bank, ordinary 10,460,541,337,338   15% 25%

As of March 16, 2011 the waiting lists for securities to be included in the RTS Indices will be updated to the following:

Waiting list for the securities to be added to the RTS Indices

No Ticker Security Index
1 RTKM OJSC "Rostelecom", ordinary RTS Index
2 RTKMP OJSC "Rostelecom", preferred RTS Index
3 DIXY Open Joint-Stock Company "DIXY GROUP", ordinary RTS Index
4 SYNG Synergy, Co, ordinary RTS Index
5 FESH FESCO, ordinary RTS Index
6 MTSSS MTS OJSC, ordinary RTS Standard Index
7 IRAOS JSC "INTER RAO UES", ordinary RTS Standard Index
8 KRSG Krasnoyarsk HES, ordinary RTS-2 Index, RTS Siberia Index
9 LSNG JSC "LENENERGO", ordinary RTS-2 Index
10 ROST OJSC "ROSINTER RESTAURANTS HOLDING", ordinary RTS-2 Index
11 NKNC OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim, ordinary RTS-2 Index
12 UKUZ Southern Kuzbass Coal Company ОАО, ordinary  RTS-2 Index
13 KOGK Korshynov Mining Plant ОАО, ordinary RTS-2 Index, RTS Siberia Index
14 BRZL BuryatZoloto, ordinary RTS-2 Index, RTS Siberia Index
15 MSNG MOSENERGO, ordinary RTS-2 Index
16 OGKC JSC "WGC-3", ordinary RTS-2 Index
17 GCHE OJSC "Cherkizovo Group", ordinary RTS Consumer & Retail Index

In addition, the Index Committee advised the Exchange to add Russian Depositary Receipt (RDR) of Sberbank representing rights on ordinary registered shares of United Company RUSAL Plc into the waiting lists for securities to be included in the RTS Index and RTS Metals & Mining Index after RTS introduces corresponding amendments to the regulatory legal acts for calculating the indices as well as the methodologies for calculating the RTS indices.

As of March 16, 2011 the waiting lists for securities to be excluded from the RTS Indices will be updated to the following:

Waiting list for the securities to be deleted from the RTS Indices

No Ticker Security Index
1 TGKA JSC "TGC-1", ordinary  RTS-2 Index, RTS Electric utilities Index
2 KMAZ OJSC KAMAZ, ordinary  RTS-2 Index, RTS Industrial Index
3 MGNT ОJSC "Magnit", ordinary  RTS-2 Index
4 TGKK JSC "TGK-11", ordinary RTS Siberia Index