OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 February 2008 was announced, that Uralsvyazinform – According to the Charter, the Board considered the list of candidates to the Board of Directors and Audit Commission for the election at the annual general meeting of shareholders in 2008.

On February 19, 2008 the Board of Directors, following examination of the proposals for compliance with the Charter, approved the list of candidates for election into the Board of Directors and Audit Commission at the Annual General Meeting of 2008.
Following the Board’s decision, the list of candidates to the Board of Directors includes

Boris Antonyuk
Deputy Minister for Informational Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation

Mikhail Batmanov
Head of section at Corporate Governance and Legal Department of OAO “Svyazinvest” Yuri Bilibin
First Deputy General Director of ZAO “Sky Link”

Vladislav Brylkov
First Deputy General Director of ZAO “Lider” (Managing Company for Non-state Pension Fund)

Anatoly Gavrilenko
General Director of ZAO “Lider” (Managing Company for Non-state Pension Fund)

Alla Grigorieva
Deputy Director for Corporate Governance and Legal Department of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Vladimir Dudchenko
Director for Operations at Moscow Office of NCH Advisors Inc.

Gennady Zheltyakov
Advisor to General Director of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Oleg Zyuzin
Head of section at Informational Technologies Section of ZAO “Lider” (Managing Company for Non-state Pension Fund)

Elena Ilyina
General Director of OAO “Specialized Registrator “INFINITUM”

Alexander Kalin
General Director of OOO “ALOR Group”

Sergey Kerber
Investments Director of ZAO “Lider” (Managing Company for Non-state Pension Fund)

Andrey Kokin
Deputy General Director – Director for Development of ZAO “Lider” (Managing Company for Non-state Pension Fund)

Olga Korolyova
Chief Accountant of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Mikhail Molchanov
General Director of OOO “ALOR Plus”

Pavel Prass
Director for Strategic Development of OAO “Specialized Registrator “INFINITUM”

Elena Sadova
General Director of ZAO “ALOR Invest”

Juliana Sokolenko
Deputy Director – Head of section at Public Communications Department of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Vladimir Statyin
General Director of Non-Profit Partnership “Association for Protection of Shareholder’s Rights”

Dmitry Tushunov
Head of Analytical Section – Leading Economist of ZAO “Lider” (Managing Company for Non-state Pension Fund)

Anatoly Ufimkin
General Director of OAO “Uralsvyazinform”

Sergey Chernogorodsky
Director of Shareholder Capital and Property of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Evgeny Chechelnitsky
Deputy General Director of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Anton Schegolikhin
Executive Director of OAO “Svyazinvest”
The candidate list for Audit Commission includes

Valentina Veremyanina
Deputy Director of Corporate Governance and Legal Department of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Yan Grinchenko
Leading Specialist of Corporate Governance and Legal Department of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Svetlana Kartuzova
Leading Specialist of Accounting, Tax and Statistics Department of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Elena Konkova
Leading Specialist of Internal Audit Department of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Ivan Topolya
Deputy Chief Accountant of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Olga Chetverkina
Leading specialist of Internal Audit Department of OAO “Svyazinvest”

Dmitry Shorokhov
Deputy Head of section at Economics and Finance Department of OAO “Svyazinvest”

A shareholder/ group of shareholders, possessing no less than 2% stake in the company, enjoys the right to nominate candidates to the BoD and Audit Commission. In compliance with the Charter of OAO “Uralsvyazinform, the BoD consists of 11 members, Audit Commission – 7 members.