Lots of changes have emerged in the CEE and CIS countries during the recent crisis years, but whatever and however deep they were, as far as the insurance business is concerned at least one thing didn't change: the growth potential lies still here, in the young markets of the Central and Eastern Europe and former soviet countries.

What happened in the first half of 2011? Which business lines were the most dynamic and which still stagnant? How did the markets, but also their constituent companies perform? There are less than 10 days until the moment you will have the chance to find out the answers to these questions, once the nest issue of the XPRIMM INSURANCE REPORT 1H/2011 will be launched.

In doing the necessary research, one of the most helpful resources has been the relevant professionals of the analyzed markets. It is our duty and pleasure to address our public thanks to the 16 Supervisory Authorities, Associations, local press groups and rating agencies that have supported the elaboration of the October 2011 Edition of the publication, by providing financial data and their comments on the industry evolution:

• Albania: Elisabeta GJONI, Chairperson, Albanian FSA
• Bosnia: Ms. Bozana SLJIVAR, Director, Insurance Agency of Republic of Srpska
• Bulgaria: Borislav BOGOEV, Deputy Chair of Financial Supervision Commission, Head of Insurance Supervision Division
• Lithuania: Ramunas BARAVYKAS, Deputy Chairman, Lithuanian ISC
• Macedonia: Klime POPOSKI, President of the Council of Experts, Macedonian ISA
• Montenegro: Branko VUJOVIC, President of the Council, Insurance Supervision Agency of Montenegro
• Serbia: National Bank of Serbia - Insurance Supervision Department
• Slovakia: Julia CILLIKOVA, Director of the Regulation and Financial Analyses Department, National Bank of Slovakia
• Slovakia: Jozefina ZAKOVA, Director General of the Slovak Insurance Association
• Slovenia: Tomaz MANCINI, B.Sc., Head of the Statistical Analysis and Information Technology Service, Slovenian Insurance Association
• Armenia: Karina MELIKYAN, Head of Financial Analysis and Rating Agency and Elita BABAYAN, Insurance Specialist, ArmInfo News Agency
• Belarus: Anton NEDVEDSKY, Belarusian Association of Insurers
• Moldova: National Commission of Financial Market
• Russia: Andrey VESELKOV, General Director, Media - Information Group, "Insurance Today"
• Ukraine: Alexandr ZALETOV, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the League of Insurance Organizations of Ukraine and Editor-in-Chief, Insurance TOP Magazine
• Uzbekistan: Information - Rating Agency SAIPRO
  

It is also our pleasure to invite you to attend the launching ceremony of the XPRIMM INSURANCE REPORT 1H/2011 on Sunday, October 23rd, with the occasion of Baden-Baden XPRIMM Reception.

INSURANCE REPORT XPRIMM 1H/2011 will analyze the trends, the realities and the complete results of the insurance market for 1H/2011 from 17 insurance markets from the CEE countries (Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia), respectively, Turkey, Russia, Georgia and 10 other countries from CIS and Central Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan).