Based on the materials from the company’s official web-site.

OJSC Polyus Gold, Russia’s leading gold producer, today announced the inclusion of the company’s shares in the MICEX index, effective today. The MICEX index is a capitalization-weighted index of most liquid stocks of Russian issuers listed on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange. As at today, Polyus Gold has a weighting of 3.45% in the index.

“I am pleased that Polyus Gold’s shares have already reached a sufficient level of liquidity to result in their inclusion in such stock indices as FTSE, MSCI, RTS. The inclusion in the MICEX index, once more, demonstrates the recognition of Polyus Gold by the Russian stock market” – the company’s CEO Evgueni Ivanov said, commenting on the event.

Polyus Gold shares are listed on RTS and MICEX in Russia and also traded on the OTC market in the US and Europe in Level 1 ADR form.

The MICEX Index has been calculated since 22 September 1997 and is based on a modern system of index management, which includes an Index Committee to determine the principles of including securities into the index calculation based on expert evaluations. The MICEX Index is calculated in real-time when any new transaction in shares from the index is carried out.