On March 6, 2005, Russian Jewellery Network published an article named Russian Jewellery Market in the information bulletin. The article was written by RIA RosYuvelirExpert.

This material has a great discussion in the market and we received a number of critic remarks. So now we are publishing some of them in order to make the situation clearer.

The experts of RIA RosYuvelirExpert mention that All jewellery producers may be divided into four categories according to the mass of their production, and the first group includes 50 companies (1% of total companies amount, 18% of the market). However, according to Russian Assay Office two Russian leading jewellery manufacturers have over 20% of the market (Adamas – 15%, Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant – about 6%). However, there are such large companies as Almaz-Holding, Yashma, Moscow Plant of Special Alloys.