14.05.2009 /Investing On Regular Coupon Payments on OVGVZ Bonds of the 7th Tranche - Maturity date of OVGVZ bonds of the 7th tranche comes due on May 14, 2011. Coupon yields on the bonds are paid once a year at a rate of 3% per annum.

14.05.2009 /Operations On Signing a Memorandum of Intent on Implementing the Project to Build a Nitrogen Fertilizers Manufacturing Complex in Mendeleevsk - The complex under construction is the first ammonia, methanol and carbamide manufacturing integrated complex on the Territory of the Russian Federation, such high-technology production facilities have not been built in the Russian Federation for a long time.

14.05.2009 /Financial Statements BNP Paribas Group: Results as at 31 March 2009 - A net profit (Group share) of 1.56 billion euros. These results were obtained thanks to its diversified and integrated business model, its geographic mix concentrated in Western Europe, its cost discipline and its risks control.

14.05.2009 /Who's who Alfa-Bank's Rushan Khvesyuk Named 2008 Best Banker in Russia - Rushan Khvesyuk, chairman of Alfa-Bank's executive board, was named "Best Banker of Russia in 2008" and was awarded with a diploma, and not for the first time, as he also won in 2006 and 2007.