RZD prize for the Contribution to the Development of Interaction and Partnership on the Transport Services Market awarded to Interfax

The 2007 prize for the Contribution to the Development of Interaction and Partnership on the Transport Services Market established by the Russian Railways (RZD) was awarded to Interfax.

RZD President Vladimir Yakunin awarded the prestigious prize to Interfax at a solemn ceremony within the framework of an international conference entitled ‘RZD on the Market of Transport Services: Interaction and Partnership.’

The RZD prize is awarded annually. Another recipient of the prize, in addition to Interfax, was the administration of the Krasnoyarsk territory.

*** Interfax is the non-governmental public news agency which was established in 1989, and is a part of the Interfax Information Services Group.

Since the early 1990s, Interfax has been the main source of current news on Russia and the rest of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for the international community, and has invariably been the main source of reference for reports from this part of the world in the foreign press, and is one of the world‘s most frequent sources of current information.