Trade visitors are now able to register for the ISPO Russia fair online, clicking on www.isporussia.com. Meanwhile, the organizers of the Moscow fair have almost completed a 9-station “Road Show” across the Community of Independent States to attract interest to the new event among trade operators throughout the region. After visiting Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Kiev, Khabarovsk, Alma-Aty, Krasnodar and Novosibirsk over the last two months, the itinerary will take them through Minsk, capital of Belarus, on Jan. 16-21, followed by St. Petersburg on Jan. 23-28. As our vast research report on the region shows, the “civilized” part of the sporting goods market is in fact growing faster in the peripheral regions of Russia and in other parts of the former Soviet Union than in Moscow. As an indication of that, at the ISPO show in Munich last February, attendance rose by 12 percent from Russia and the Ukraine, by 19 percent from Kazakhstan and by 37 percent from Belarus.