2006

October-December
RBC's top managers named among top 10 out of 1000 most professional managers in Russia.

RBC announces winners of the Company of the Year-2006 national business award.

RBC's journalists win the Financial Russia national business journalism award.

RBC acquires rights to the Narodnaya Marka business contest.

July-September
RBC signs a contract to build an additional TV studio in the Moscow-City international business center.

RBC launches the RBC.Credit online resource with comprehensive information on the private loan market.

RBC TV granted the Russia-2006 annual national award.

RBC acquires a controlling stake in the EDI S PRESS Holding international publishing house.

RBC's Board approves an IT business spin-off and a wide-scale expansion of the Internet business.

RBC and Mostelecom reach an agreement on the distribution of RBC TV's signal via the Moscow cable network.

RBC launches a printed version of the RBC Daily electronic business newspaper.

April-June
RBC announces successful debut issue of credit-linked notes worth $100mln.

RBC advances from 100th to 76th position in the FT's rating of the largest Eastern European companies.

RBC launches the Business Style Internet project to cover the latest news and major industry events in the world fashion industry.

January-March
RBC launches the RBC monthly business magazine.

RBC shares included in the MICEX Index.

RBC establishes an information agency in Ukraine.

RBC assigned the highest - A-class - corporate governance rating by Expert RA.

RBC launches the Consumer Market online resource.

2005

October - December
RBC reaches an agreement to acquire controlling stakes in Helios Computer and ASKO-TBS Consulting.

RBC announces the winners of the Best Brand/EFFIE 2005 award.

RBC presents the Consumer Market News business news line.

RBC launches the Currency Exchange Forecasts specialized product.

RBC names the winners of the Company of the Year 2005 national business award.

RBC TV receives the Product of the Year 2005 award from the National Trade Association in the category For Creation of a Unique Media Product.

RBC is ranked 139th among the 500 fastest-growing technology companies on the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Technology Fast 500 EMEA list for 2005.

July - September
RBC is ranked among top-15 most liquid issuers on Russian stock exchanges by the Kommersant-Dengi weekly newspaper.

RBC ranks 8th in the S&P's Transparency and Disclosure Survey.

April - June
RBC presents Mutual Investment Funds Database with a whole range of information about mutual investment funds.

RBC is ranked 11th in the iOne-2004 rating of the leading software developers on the Russian IT market.

RBC is named among the top 100 largest Eastern European companies by The Financial Times.

January - March
RBC launches the RBC-Real Estate information portal.

RBC is named among the most cited brands in Runet in 2004.

RBC launches an information and stock exchange terminal, QuoteRate.

RBC TV's programs broadcast on CNBC Europe.

RBC announces the winners of the Person of the Year 2004 awards.

RBC is assigned a higher - A-Class - corporate governance rating by Expert RA.

RBC introduces a customizable news line, RBC NewsMonitor.

RBC launches a Level 1 ADR program with The Bank of New York.

2004

December 8, 2004
RBC announces the winners of the Company of the Year 2004 award.

October 29, 2004
RBC TV introduces a new program schedule.

October 27, 2004
RBC announces the winners of EFFIE/THE BEST BRAND 2004 award.

October 21, 2004
RBC launches the Business for Sale (www.biztorg.ru) project.

August 25, 2004
RBC TV starts broadcasting Bloomberg's data.

August 19, 2004
RBC TV begins broadcasting in the Baltic States.

August 11, 2004
RBC announces the acquisition of The Best Brand annual award.

July 28, 2004
RBC launches its Price Forecasts project.

June 29, 2004
RBC launches a new project, Issuers Database.

June 3, 2004
Comcon Media: RBC TV weekly audience exceeds 1.5m people.

June 9, 2004
RBC Soft develops car imports control system for the State Customs Committee.

May 31, 2004
RBC TV to cover 85% of St. Petersburg's audience.

April 20, 2004
RBC presents RBC Quote, offering wide information on stock and commodity markets.

April 1, 2004
RBC launches a new analytical project, RBC Rating.

February 6, 2004
RBC offers new product, Issuer Messenger.

January 29, 2004
RBC receives Media Choice-2003 award.

2003

December 10, 2003
RBC ranks 43rd in the Deloitte's European Technology Fast 500.

December 3, 2003
RBC sells over 1,000 marketing surveys in one year.

November 3, 2003
RBC TV is declared the TV Event of the Year 2003.

September 25, 2003
RBC introduces Seminars Shop, which provides information on seminars, training courses, and conferences on various topics.

August 28, 2003
RBC launches a new project, RBC Bonds, with information on Russian corporate bonds.

July 7, 2003
RBC launches the first Russian advertising network, AdNet.ru.

June 2, 2003
RBC TV announces it will go on the air on June 30, 2003.

March 25, 2003
RBC names the winners of the Person of the Year 2002 award.

February 17, 2003
RBC releases the first issue of its Internet business newspaper, RBC Daily.

2002

December 5, 2002
RBC receives an award from the National Investment Forum.

RBC is among top 100 of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu 2003 European Technology Fast 500 list of the fastest-developing European companies.

December 2, 2002
RBC launches a new project, Market Research.

July 25, 2002
RBC presents a new exchange terminal: currency exchanges.

July 16, 2002
RBC presents a new analytical solution: technical analysis of the stock market.

June 11, 2002
RBC launches its new product on Fuel and Energy news.

June 3, 2002
RBC presents a new version of the Stock Exchange Terminal.

May 23, 2002
RBC introduces a new product, Market Map, which allows customers to follow developments on the Russian stock market.

May 21, 2002
The Board of Directors of RBC resolves to set up RBC TV.

April 18, 2002
RBC makes the first Russian IPO on domestic stock exchanges.

April 11, 2002
RBC opens its web-hosting center.

March 29, 2002
RBC announces the winners of the Person of the Year 2001 award.

March 5, 2002
RBC presents the Portfolio online stock trade simulator.

January 25, 2002
RBC develops a new Internet resource for students - 5ballov.ru.

2001

November 14, 2001
RBC presents a portal with automotive news, AutoNews.ru.

November 12, 2001
RBC launches an analytical product, RBC Graph.

November 1, 2001
RBC wins the Brand of the Year/EFFIE 2001 award.

October 31, 2001
RBC launches a new information product, Unified newsline.

October 12, 2001
RBC designs a turnkey solution, Info Government, for government authorities.

September 10, 2001
RBC and France Informatique & Technologie design FIT & EasyShop base solution for e-commerce.

July 3, 2001
RBC updates its TV Guide and adds more information to this section.

June 4, 2001
Russia's largest mailing service, Subscribe.ru, begins to distribute information from RosBusinessConsulting.

May 30, 2001
RBC becomes an official representative of Navision/ Siebel on the Russian market.

May 25, 2001
RBC introduced a new information terminal, RBC. Win.

April 27, 2001
RBC creates a new tourist web portal, RBC Tourism.

February 7, 2001
RBC launches an analytical "Commentary of the day" section on its website.

2000

November 29, 2000
RBC becomes the only distributor of Thawte (a VeriSign company) SSL Certificates.

November 20, 2000
RBC presents its Internet solutions department.

October 19, 2000
RBC presents a new information system - Interbank Credits Online.

October 17, 2000
RBC becomes an Internet holding.

October 5, 2000
RBC announces its new project, www.informer.ru.

September 19, 2000
RBC launches a new web portal with IPE trade results.

September 14, 2000
RBC presents a new website at sport.rbc.ru with latest news from the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

August 21, 2000
RBC launches the CNews project, which provides Internet and hi-tech news.

August 4, 2000
RBC joins Intel's e-Business Solution Provider Program (Intel eBSP).

June 20, 2000
RBC presents a new service of WAP access to its information resources.

June 9, 2000
RBC begins providing real time 24-hour news coverage.

March 28, 2000
RBC sets a new record on the Russian Internet, as RBC's website, www.rbc.ru, was visited by more than 280,000 people on March 27.

That is the number of visitors, who traced the vote calculation and read the latest news on the RBC server during the Russian Presidential elections. According to the company's own statistics, there were 454,039 hits only on the main page. According to the TopList rating system statistics, there were 895,648 hits on the portal's major pages.

1999

December 30, 1999

RBC is rated among Russia's top-ten rapidly and steadily developing information and consulting companies.

December 8, 1999
RBC begins broadcasting the course of trading on the system of guaranteed quotes of RTS and provides additional information on trading at MICEX.

November 15, 1999
RBC hosts the first online press conference with Moscow's Mayor Yury Luzhkov.

November 15, 1999
RBC launches the RBC NEWS-Spb project, offering news from North-Western Russia.

October 29, 1999
RBC presents its RBC Newsline in English.

August 25, 1999
RBC introduces on-line trading results of the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange.

July 6, 1999
RBC launches a sock and financial newsline.

June 1999
RBC launches its new project, RBC informers (changing graphic objects with the latest financial data).

April 7, 1999
RBC publishes the first version of the unique information product, RBC Bill Terminal.

February 1999
RBC offers a new way of providing information - via pager.

January 1999
RBC offers a new product, Press Digest.

RBC introduces new means of information delivery - via TV signal and radio channel.

1998

December, 1998
RBC is included in the list of Russia's most rapidly and steadily developing companies.

November 5, 1998
RBC receives the Grand Prix of the Business Website1998 award.

October 29, 1998
RBC is the first company to offer online access to the cash market.

October 1, 1998
The numbers of hits on the RBC server exceeds 3mln.

August 18, 1998
Telerate information company (previously known as Dow Jones Markets) and RBC sign a partnership agreement.

July 1, 1998
The Russian Federal Commission for Securities Market names RBC among the 3 winners of the competition aimed at choosing the methodology of the stock index calculation to be used by the Commission.

June 30, 1998
RBC offers a new online service, Currency converter.

June 1, 1998
RBC offers its clients a forecast of financial markets based on the Elliot wave theory.

January 1998
The number of RBC's clients exceeds 2,000.

1997

November 1997
The RAMBLER and INFOART rating systems record the daily average of visitors to the RBC homepage to be more than 1,000, which is the highest number among all Russian news agencies.

August 1997
RBC launches a newsline, embracing financial and stock market information.

1996

November 1996
RBC creates the first official Russian on-line information system, which broadcasts trading on Russian stock exchanges via the Internet.

October 1996
RBC starts calculating its own RBC index.

March 1996
RBC launches the Over-the-Counter Equity Market as a separate information and analysis database and bulletin.

1995

December 1995
RBC launches the Bills Market as a separate information and analysis database and bulletin.

The number of RBC's clients exceeds 1,000 companies.

October 1995
RBC signs an agreement with the Bank of Russian on the disclosure of information about Russian banks.

September 1995
RBC launches an English version of its Internet server.

May 1995
RBC is the first information agency to create its own Internet server.

February 1995
RBC forms a regional correspondent network.

1994

September 1994
RBC opens its subsidiary in St. Petersburg.

June-July 1994
RBC establishes a news department.

May 1994
RBC signs an agreement with TENFORE international system on joint distribution of information.

March 1994
RBC forms an analytical department.

February 1994
An increased flow of information on the stock market prompts RBC to launch a separate Stock Market bulletin .

1993

December 1993
RBC issues its first "Itogi Nedeli" ("Weekly Review") analytical bulletin.

July 1993
RBC creates an archive service and provides archive data.

June 1993
RBC starts issuing its currency & financial information in the electronic form.

May 1993
RosBusinessConsulting information agency is founded.

RBC issues its first Information. Analysis. Commentaries bulletin, which covers the latest currency and credit developments.

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