On December 19 at the CEH Manege united MICEX and RTS celebrated the first joint New Year. As a musical aperetif a cover band "Flora Band" was performing on stage, after that the official part of the event started - the award ceremony, luconically supplemented with integration themed contests: guests were asked to name the number of staff of the exchange, the foundation date of Russian stock markets and show the process how MICEX-RTS reaches the IPO. At the end of the evening a rock diva Zemfira performed: so to the New Year‘s "Blues" the guests greeted the New 2012.