30.01.2009 /Financial Statements B.I.N.BANK has summarized the results of international business in 2008 - In August, 2008 B.I.N.BANK drew a syndicated loan in the amount of USD 27 mln. that added the total amount of international financing to USD 206 mln. The volume of short- and long-term trade finance operations exceeded USD 140 mln. and the total portfolio of international transactions made above USD 346 mln.

30.01.2009 /Who's who On Changes in the Composition of Svyaz-Bank Board of Directors - The Board of Directors' new composition is currently as follows: Management Board Member – Vnesheconombank First Deputy Chairman Anatoly Tikhonov, Management Board Member Sergei Lykov, President-Chairman of Svyaz-Bank Management Board Alexandr Zhitnik, OJSC Svyazinvest General Director Alexandr Kiselev, Post of Russia Acting General Director Andrei Manoilo.

30.01.2009 /Who's who A.V. Tikhonov’s Election as Chairman of OJSC Svyaz-Bank Board of Directors - Vnesheconombank First Deputy Chairman Anatoly Tikhonov was elected as Chairman of Svyaz-Bank Board of Directors, Vnesheconombank Deputy Chairman Sergei Lykov was elected as Deputy Chairman of Svyaz-Bank Board of Directors.

30.01.2009 /Who's who Vnesheconombank Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev is Appointed as Head of the RUIE Committee for Public Private Partnership and Investment Policy - Earlier Alexandr Shokhin was Head of this Committee. "Whereas VEB's projects are playing one of the key roles on Russia's investment market and in the PPP sphere, we hope that the RUIE's new potentialities would be in demand in the Russian business community", says the Union’s press release.