April
Higher School of Economics and Key Russian News Agencies Interfax and RIA Novosti Setting Up Journalism School
Interfax receives award for best federal mass media outlet covering economic issues
LexisNexis, Interfax Sign Agreement on Alliance and Promotion in Russia of Unique Information Service
Interfax increases sales of news products from China, becomes largest foreign media outlet in mainland China
March
Interfax remained the most frequently cited name among Russian and CIS media outlets in 2007
February
Interfax is announcing it has launched e-newspaper www.interfax.ru and new e-services
Interfax Group and Estates Gazette Group, Europe’s Top Real Estate Publishing Group, Announce Joint English-Language Real Estate Report for Russia and the CIS and Central Europe
Interfax Group Becomes One of the Disclosure Leaders in Emerging Markets
October
Interfax launches new SCAN database project
September
Interfax announces launch of Interfax-Far East project, completion of news agencies network in federal districts
July
MICEX Stock Exchange and Interfax launch joint corporate information disclosure project
June
Interfax tops the MediaUnion rating of the most frequently mentioned and quoted news agencies and Internet news resources in the national and regional press.
May
The Interfax Group purchased 90% of the Finmarket Information Agency (www.finmarket.ru/), one of the leading Russian providers of financial information.
January
Interfax-Azerbaijan News Agency has announced the launching of a new portal, http://www.interfax.az/ in the Russian and Azeri languages.
In 2006 Interfax ranked second among the most frequently mentioned brands on the Russian Internet.
June
Interfax Group has signed an agreement with Business Wire (www.businesswire.com), a world leader in commercial news distribution, that provides for offering Russian companies a full range of disclosure services in keeping with the legal requirements effective in different parts of the world.
April
  The jury of the international business journalism contest PRESSZVANIE has awarded Interfax Information Services Group a prize in the category "Russian Business from A to Z" for the SPARK project. The prize is given to the leader in developing reference and information products for the mass media and business community
Interfax receives Russian Financial Elite Award in the nomination "For Contribution to the Financial Market Development."
March
Experian-Interfax issues its first credit history report.
Interfax opens its 20th press center in Russia.
The Federal Financial Markets Service entered Experian-Interfax credit bureau in the state register of credit bureaus, which under Russian law gives the bureau the right to exchange credit histories.
February
Interfax Information Services Group has announced the formation of the Interfax Central Europe News Agency. The new agency (www.interfax-centraleurope.com/), headquartered in Warsaw, has incorporated the news services in Poland, Hungary, the  Czech Republic and Slovakia, which were founded about six years ago. It is aimed at ensuring the further expansion of the Group's activities in the region.
January
An opinion poll on the website of the newspaper Vedomosti, indicates that Interfax is the most popular Russian information agency.
The Interfax Center for Economic Analysis (Interfax CEA) has begun the release of a new series of analytical and statistical publications entitled CIS Insurance Companies and CIS Banks under the Interfax-1,000 brand, which gives our clients the opportunity to compare all major banks and insurance companies in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries in terms of their key performance indicators.
The Interfax newswire in the Russian language has become available to Russian clients of Reuters. This newswire, which has been specially designed for professional financial market players, combines political, corporate, and macroeconomic news affecting market trends, as well as forecasts and comments on the principal market segments. Until recently, Interfax news were available to Reuters subscribers only in English.
December
In a poll conducted by the GfK-Rus pollster in 2005, Interfax was named the clear leader among information agencies working in Russia in terms of the frequency of the use of its reports by mass media. GfK-Rus is part of the GfK-Group, a leading international company that specializes in market research.
November
Thomson Financial (http://www.thomson.com/), an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation and leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, and Interfax Business Service, part of Interfax Group, Russia’s leading provider of information and services to the financial market announced a strategic partnership to market professional solutions for the corporate community in Russia.
 Interfax Information Services Group launches a new information system, SPARK-Emitent, to supply professionals on the Russian stock market with exhaustive information on companies, shares and bonds on the market.
October
The Experian Interfax credit bureau has received a license from the Federal Technical and Export Control Service to protect confidential information.
July
Moody's Interfax Rating Agency introduced a new National Rating Scale for use in the Russian Federation. This initiative results from a comprehensive analysis of the Russian market in association with its affiliate, Moody's Investors Service.
May
NAUFOR, the national stock market participants' association, has acknowledged the contribution Interfax Group has made to increasing the transparency of the Russian stock market and thanked it for putting its system for disclosing material events about issuers (http://www.e-disclosure.ru/) in place during the association's fifth annual Stock Market Elite ceremony on May 17.
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