MICEX upgrades Acron’s second-issue bonds from B to A list.

 Acron confirms that it is buying back 953,752 shares of its outstanding common registered non-certificated shares at the local offer price of RUB 910.39 per share in accordance with the Board of Directors decision announced May 18, 2010.

On August 12-13, Sergei Fedorov, Acron’s Vice President for Mining and Chemical Production Development, paid a working visit to Perm Krai, where Acron’s subsidiary VPC is developing a new potash source.