OREANDA-NEWS  On 02 October was announced, that starting from 10:00am Moscow time September 30, 2008 Federal Financial Markets Service suspended operations of submitting orders for sale for securities on the markets of trading organizers, if the client, on whose behalf the corresponding operation is to be performed, has not enough securities subject to the trade in the required volume and (or) there have not been any transactions concluded for the benefit of this client to purchase these securities in the required volume (except for the first part of a Repo), providing execution at the moment of settlement at the end of the main trading session on the day when the obligations under the submitted order are supposed to be fulfilled.

This is an official notice of the Federal Financial Markets Service of Russia.

For further information, please contact the RTS Public Relations Department at +7(495)705-9031, 500-3840.