Association Goznak has put all necessary measures into effect enabling the production of the 5000 Rouble notes and is ready to start executing this order of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

Association “Goznak” of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation is carrying out an open tender for the supply in 2005 – 2006 of holographic foil for federal special excise stamps for alcohol beverages, in the quantity of 350 000 m2.

Association “Goznak” of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation is carrying out an open tender for the supply in 2005 – 2006 of multilayer plastic material with an antenna and a microchip (an inlay) designated for production of the plastic page of the traveling passport of the citizen of the Russian Federation in the quantity of 500 thousand pieces (150 thousand pieces in 2005, 350 thousand in 2006).

In April, 2005, St. Petersburg Paper Mill of Goznak launched industrial production of the Betancour multi-purpose paper with electrophotographic properties for ink jet printers.

From 8th to 10th June, 2005, the Palace of Congresses Presidential Complex in Strelna (Konstantinovsky Palace) (the suburb of St. Petersburg) hosts the First Watermark Conference, the First International R&D Conference on Security Printing to be held in Russia. Alexei Kudrin, the RF Minister of Finance, plans to take part in the opening ceremony of this Conference.

Viktor Yerokhin, the Chief Artist of Goznak Moscow Mint, who is called today the head of one of the directions in the Russian contemporary medal art, marked his 50th jubilee on the 16th April.

On Wednesday the New Indonesian Notes Produced by Association Goznak and Put into Circulation in Late 2004 Reached the Remotest Corners of “the Country of Three Thousand Islands” that the Tsunami Devastated.

Association Goznak specialists completed the development of the new security system which will make Russian money counterfeiting much more difficult when further used in the production of banknotes that are in circulation today. This security system is planned to be implemented as early as in 2004.

Association Goznak celebrated its 185th anniversary the other day. Once Goznak was called the Forwarding Agency of the State Papers Stock.

By July 1 Association Goznak will print 2 million automobile liability insurance policies under contracts signed with more than 113 insurance companies.

The skill of the medalists of Association Goznak has once again won recognition.

An expertise of the sheets with security elements seized from Chechen counterfeiters

General Director of Association "Goznak" Arkady Trachuk gave an interview to Dengi. Kommersant magazine