I don't really understand why they'd be removing coins at this point. If I were them I'd be trying to add support for as many coins as possible to compete with cryptsy, coinex .. etc.
BTC-e does about 200 times Cryptsy's volume... they are not "competing".
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http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/markets/infoFTC was doing 175 BTC/day... those Russian dudes are hard to please.