Goznak has adopted a decision to become the General Sponsor of Watermark Conference-2013- the 5th International Scientific and Practical Conference on Security Printing which will take place in Saint-Petersburg on June 25 – 27.

According to the results of the 11th Chinese voting competition for the best foreign stamp which took place in Beijing at the end of 2012, “Malye Korely” souvenir sheet printed at the Moscow Printing Factory of Goznak received the experts’ special prize “For the best printing quality”.

At the Reserve Personalization Center of the Moscow Printing Works – Branch of Goznak there took place a press-conference where it was announced that since 2013 chips made in Russia will be applied in the travel passports of the citizens of Russia. In December 2012 Goznak purchased the first 100 thousand chips produced by “NIIME and Mikron” JSC which are embedded into the travel passports with the electronic data carrier now.

Samples of the gold, silver and bronze medals to be presented to the winners of the upcoming Games were manufactured at the Saint-Petersburg Mint – Branch of Goznak under the order of the Organizational Committee of Student Games-2013.

“Interfax-ERA” Agency has published the rating of Russian companies showing how wisely they consume the energy necessary for their production activity and what impact on the environment they make.  Having analyzed the results provided by 150 companies, the rating compilers put Goznak on the first place of the final list.

On September 18 at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts Alexander Baklanov, Head Artist of the Design Center of Goznak, People’s Artist of Russia received the certificate of a full-fledged member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Arts.

On the philatelic forum held at the exhibition «PLANET TIMBRES» in the Parc floral de Paris, the chief of the Post administration of the United Nations, Mr. David E. Feylor announced postage stamps of the Russian Federation, "The visit to Russia" as the winner of the Jury Prize competition for the best brand of the “Europe 2012” program.

The certification procedure of the Personalization Center created at the basis of the Moscow Printing Works – Branch of Goznak for its compliance to the requirements and standards of MasterCard international payment system in physical and logical security was accomplished in August 2012.

The next series of "Contemporary Art of Russia" regular stamps has been in circulation since July 30. Stamps produced by the Publishing and Trading Centre "Marka", printed at the Moscow Printing Factory - Branch of Goznak – were issued in the number of 240,000 copies (40 thousand vintage sheets).

A regular, third (95th) edition of the Watermark devoted to security printing had been released.