June
Interfax included in Inside Market Data Reference review
May 2008
The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation and Interfax Announce Joint Venture in Russia
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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Following years of development, Interfax launches SPARK (http://www.spark.interfax.ru/ ), Russia's largest and most reliable company atabase.
The service is the first to unite multiple-source official information on all legal entities operating in Russia into one system.
Moody's Investors Service becomes the majority shareholder in Interfax Rating Agency, which is renamed Moody's Interfax Rating Agency.
Interfax and Experian, a leading global information solutions company, form a joint venture to set up a credit bureau, Experian Interfax, for consumers and businesses in Russia.
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Creation of the Interfax Gas News Agency (Interfax-GNA).
2001
Interfax Military News Agency (Interfax-MNA) is set up to offer a unique coverage of armed forces and the military industrial complex of Russia and other CIS countries.
In the first of the series of high profile alliances, Interfax Rating Agency and Moody's Investors Service, sign a strategic cooperation agreement.
2000
Interfax expands outside the former Soviet Union to open a business reporting agency in China (www.interfax.cn). Similar agencies in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary were soon to follow.
1999
Interfax enters a new market with the launch of EFIR terminal (Economy, Finance and Markets, http://www.ideal.ru/) with financial news, market data and fundamentals.
1997
In a pioneering move, Interfax news becomes available on the terminals of the Russian Trading System, Russia's electronic stock exchange.
1995
Interfax news becomes available at Bloomberg terminals
1994
Launch of an analytical service that includes bank rankings and Russian stock indexes. Interfax Petroleum News Agency (Interfax-PNA) becomes the first specialist information service for the the oil & energy sector in Russia and the CIS.
1993
Interfax Financial News Agency (Interfax-FNA) is set up in September and rapidly becomes the key news source for players at the fledgling Russian financial market.
1992
Interfax Ukraine News Agency is launched, soon to become the country's largest agency. In the following years Interfax will form news agencies in all major countries of the former Soviet Union and in the largest regions of Russia – from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.
1991
In January, Soviet authorities impose closure of Interfax and evict it from its premises. Within hours the Agency resumed activities in the building of the Russian Supreme Soviet, which was then led by Boris Yeltsin, the future first president of Russia. In June Interfax launches the Soviet Business Report, the first business news bulletin in the Soviet Union. In July Interfax opens a company in the United States to sell its products abroad. Within a year sales offices in London and Frankfurt will follow, later in Hong Kong and Warsaw. Interfax's coverage of the August 1991 coup is nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
1990
Interfax strengthens its reputation as the prime source of objective news from the Soviet Union and in March it signs up its 100th subscriber.
1989
In July Mikhail Komissar, with colleagues from Radio Moscow, Launch a Russian and English language daily news bulletin, distributed by fax, the most modern technology of the time
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