(Moscow, Russia, 3 December 2007) - Common shares in Rosneft (RTS: ROSN), the PIK  group  and  Magnitogorsk Steel & Iron Work (MMK) (RTS: MAGN) as well as global depository receipts in Pharmstandard and preferred shares in Sberbank (RTS: SBER) have been included on MSCI Russia's index.

MSCI  Barra  announced  the companies' inclusion on November 5. The decision will come into force as of December 3.

Rosneft's  weighting on the MSCI comes to 3.1%, MMC and PIK - 0.7%, Pharmstandard - 0.5% and Sberbank prefs - 0.4%.

The undisputed leader on the MSCI index remains Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) with a weighting  of  33.1%.  The  gas giant is followed by Lukoil (RTS: LKOH) with  12%,  common  shares in Sberbank - 10.4%, MMC Norilsk Nickel (RTS: GMKN)  -  7.4%, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) (RTS: MTSS) (RTS: MTSS) - 4.7% and VimpelCom (RTS: VIMP) - 4.1%.

Rosneft  and  PIK's weighting on the MSCI Emerging Market will come
to 0.63% and 0.34%, respectively.