OREANDA-NEWS. July 2, 2007. Based on the voting held during the annual General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom, 11 persons have been elected to the Company’s Board of Directors.

The newly elected Board of Directors’ Members were voted for in the way as follows:

1. Ananenkov Alexander Georgiyevich, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, OAO Gazprom 18,202,151,507

2. Bergmann Burckhard, Chairman of the Executive Board, E.ON Ruhrgas AG, 16,767,406,586

3. Gazizullin Farit Rafikovich, Member of the Board of Directors, OAO Gazprom, 18,482,485,703

4. Gref German Oskarovich, Economic Development and Trade Minister of the Russian Federation, 18,476,101,964

5. Karpel Elena Yevgeniyevna, Head of the Economic Expertise and Pricing Department, OAO Gazprom, 17,693,519,451

6. Medvedev Dmitry Anatoliyevich, First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, 20,268,765,325

7. Miller Alexey Borisovich, Chairman of the Management Committee, OAO Gazprom, 20,240,236,287

8. Sereda Mikhail Leonidovich, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Head of the Administration, OAO Gazprom , 18,497,475,899

9. Fyodorov Boris Grigoriyevich, Doctor of Science in Economics 
14,968,050,934

10.  Khristenko Viktor Borisovich, Industry and Energy Minister of the Russian Federation, 18,461,530,762

11. Yusufov Igor Khanukovich, Special Envoy of the Russian Federation President for International Energy Cooperation, 18,450,703,048

2,076,976 votes were against all candidates with 16,940,704 submitted as voting abstentions.

The Shareholders Meeting also re-elected the 9-member Audit Commission and ratified a handful of transactions of corporate interest to be potentially executed by Gazprom within regular business activity. The Shareholders Meeting approved the interested party transactions in connection with the Nord Stream project execution.