OREANDA-NEWS. March 7, 2008. The National Depository Center (NDC), Russia’s only settlement depository servicing the full range of securities issued by Russian issuers, announced today that it has signed an additional agreement with DCC CJSC. According to the agreement, effective from 11 March, shares in 15 additional issuers will be serviced through the NDC-DCC “bridge”.

The list of additions to the “bridge” includes Acron OJSC, Bank Uralsib OJSC, Veropharm OJSC, PIK Group OJSC, Kazan Helicopter Plant OJSC, Magnit OJSC, Moskovskaya Telposetevaya Kompaniya OJSC, Moskovskaya Obyedinennaya Elektrosetevaya Kompaniya OJSC, Mosenergosbyt OJSC, Polymetall OJSC, Raspadskaya OJSC, Rosbank OJSC, Seventh Continent OJSC and TMK OJSC.

The “bridge” links Russia’s two leading trading systems – MICEX and RTS - and represents a means of facilitating securities transfers between NDC, which services MICEX-listed securities, and Depository Clearing Corporation (DCC), which services RTS securities.

The NDC-DCC “bridge” currently services the securities of 77 issuers.