Supporting Organisations

BISNIS is the Department of Commerce’s primary resource center for U.S. companies exploring business opportunities in Russia and other Newly Independent States. BISNIS provides U.S. companies with the latest market reports and tips on developments, export and investment opportunities, and strategies for doing business in the NIS. Since opening in 1992, BISNIS has facilitated more than $2.8 billion worth of U.S. exports and overseas investments. www.bisnis.doc.gov

Launched in 1994, Emerging Markets Investor is the journal of record for the global emerging markets. It tracks all stages and forms of investment in the emerging markets including debt and equity, capital market issuance, foreign direct investment, supranational lending and portfolio investment. Offering first-rate insight, opinion and analysis of all the issues affecting the investment climate in these fast moving markets, Emerging Markets Investor is essential reading for investors, issuers and banks who act as financial intermediaries. Our website is regularly updated with content from each issue.

For further information please visit our site http://www.emiontheweb.com
Or call +44 (0)20 7484 9700.

Global Investor Publishing, Inc. (GIP) provides financial information on investing in emerging markets, serving institutional investors, financial services professionals and the global online investment community.

Emerging Europe Portfolio/The Journal for Investing in Emerging Europe/EMEA -
Emerging Europe Portfolio provides in-depth information on the strategies, allocation decisions and prevailing sentiment of fund managers and institutional investors in Emerging Europe and EMEA.

eMergingPortfolio.com Fund Research -
eMergingPortfolio.com Fund Flows and Weightings Reports track the widest universe of funds available to emerging market participants through its comprehensive emerging market funds database. The database includes over 1,500 funds with more than $160 billion in capital - over 90% of all assets in emerging market funds.www.emergingportfolio.com

Energy Intelligence Group – News, Insight and Analysis on the Worldwide Energy Business. At the cutting edge of both the publishing and the energy industries, Energy Intelligence Group delivers news, data and analysis to enable you to make well-informed decisions. EIG serves as your filter on the world; bringing you the key information of how rapidly unfolding events affect your bottom line. In a world burdened by too much data and unreliable information, EIG provides the shortcut to understanding energy markets and the geopolitics of petroleum and natural gas—and what they mean to you. Subscribers to EIG’s services benefit from:

• Highly powerful—yet user-friendly—electronic interfaces for key newsletters
• Information resources available on-line, by e-mail or faxed
• Special reports—both printed and electronic—on crude oil trade, company rankings, natural gas, and the former Soviet Union.

Energy Intelligence Group, 5 East 37th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10016-2807, USA. Phone (212) 532-1112; Fax (212) 532-4479. Sales@energyintel.com Visit us at www.energyintel.com

Pulitzer Prize-nominated Interfax News Agency is the leading source of political, economic and financial information from the emerging markets of Eastern Europe, China, Russia, the CIS, and the Baltic states.

Since its foundation in 1989, Interfax has earned the reputation on the world market of an independent, competent, and reliable source of news and information. Today Interfax boasts subscribers in more than 100 countries, including thousands of the most distinguished corporations, investment funds, brokerage houses, banks, financial institutions, federal agencies and governments worldwide. Interfax directs a global journalistic staff of more than 1,000 in more than 70 bureaus worldwide including London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Denver, Dublin, Nicosia, Moscow, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Kiev, Minsk, and Almata. The list is steadily expanding. Interfax copyrights more than 3,000 stories daily, providing international and country-specific political, economic, financial and business news, coupled with in-depth analysis and research. Interfax is positioned as the global markets news leader.www.interfax-news.com.

The Pennsylvania-Russia Business Council is a major non-profit organization in the Mid-Atlantic Region that provides assistance, information, and organizes events related to Russia/NIS. The PRBC works to foster business relations between Russia and the Newly Independent States, and the US Mid-Atlantic Region; while cultivating contacts and cooperation among political, economic, cultural and educational interests. Our goal is to enhance the position of companies based in the US Mid-Atlantic Region, in Russia and the NIS; and to attract Russian businesses to the Mid-Atlantic Region, with particular emphasis on advanced technology related industries.

For additional information concerning the PRBC please contact Val Kogan, PRBC President at phone: (215) 708-2628 or (215) 963-7079, email: prbc@att.net or visit the PRBC website at: www.fita.org/prbc.

Russiamoney is the only English language magazine dedicated to investment opportunities in Russia and the CIS. It is published quarterly by Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc. Russiamoney offers you a round-up of new deals and developments in the country-highlighting the opportunities and treats to your trade within this area.

" ... As the Russian economy turns the corner it becomes increasingly evident that there is a lack of serious professional publications devoted to the main economic trends and investment opportunities in our country. I believe that the new edition will become not only a valuable source of information about our country but also a reliable guide for making decisions on investment to Russia."

Mikhail Kasyanov, the Prime Minister of Russia on Russiamoney

Skate Inc. is the leading financial content aggregation and publishing company in Emerging Europe serving the professional investment community since 1992. Skate produces a variety of hardcopy and online publications, supplies data to financial information vendors around the world, including world’s largest specialized financial media companies. Skate also provides investors’ relations services to public companies and custom content integration services to online brokers and operates the premium quality financial content site. www.skatefn.com.