RTS Stock Exchange Classic Market: I Quarter 2005 Market Data

For the first quarter of 2005 the total trading volume on Classic market equaled 1 074 million US dollars compared with 1 211 million US dollars in the fourth quarter of 2004.

Daily average trading volume on the Classic Market in the first quarter of 2005 increased by 1.58% compared with the previous period (18,9 million) and reached 19,2 million

RTS Index closed on March 31 st , 2005, at 669,07, 8.95% up on December 31 st , 2004, closing value of 614,11.The second-tier stock index, RTS-2, has increased by 21.72% over the same period and reached 930.56, as of March 31 st .