21.05.2007 /Events Center-invest Bank in Oxford - Professor Vasily V. Vysokov gave a lecture "Center-invest Bank: Stable Development of the South of Russia" at one of the largest international universities.

21.05.2007 /Events "Saint Petersburg" Bank's General Meeting of Shareholders - The Meeting approved the Management's Report about the Bank's operation in 2006, Balance Sheet as of 1st January 2007 and Statement of Income for 2006.

21.05.2007 /Events PPF GROUP and NOMOS-BANK to form strategic partnership to create universal banking group in Russia - PPF Group N.V., and shareholders of Nomos Bank, announce that they have signed the Memorandum of Understanding with a goal to creating a strategic partnership. In connection with the negotiation the planned IPO of Nomos Bank has been suspended.

21.05.2007 /Operations Welcome to the new BSGV's Moscow branch "Sokolniki" - New BSGV branch - "Sokolniki" - for individual clients has started working. The branch is located at: 22, Rusakovskaya str., bld.

21.05.2007 /Financial Statements The volume of Raiffeisenbank's acquiring operations exceeds 500 mln roubles per month. - This indicator outruns last year's result for the same period by 3 times (as of end April 2006 the volume of transactions was 134 mln roubles per month).