OREANDA-NEWS. Rostelecom OJSC (MICEX-RTS: RTKM, RTKMP; OTCQX: ROSYY) (“the Company”), Russia’s national telecommunications operator, announces that Rostelecom’s Board of Directors has approved the following nominations to its Board of Directors, which will be elected at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (“AGM”):

Ruben Aganbegyan

Sergei Azatyan

Mikhail Alekseev

Vladimir Bondarik

Valentina Veremianina

Yury Voicehovsky

Dmitry Gurevich

Mikhail Zadornov

Anton Zlatopolsky

Sergey Kalugin

Elena Kataeva

Yury Kudimov

Nikolai Kudryavtsev

Pavel Kuzmin

Denis Kulikov

Sergei Kulikov

Alexei Malinin

Oleg Malis

Anatoly Milyukov

Boris Nemsic

Artem Obolenskiy

Alexander Provotorov

Alexander Pchelintsev

Ivan Rodionov

Evgeny Roytman

Arkady Rotenberg

Nikolai Sabitov

Vadim Semenov

Dmitry Strashnov

Ashot Khachaturyans

Evgeny Yuriev

Rostelecom’s Charter stipulates that the Company’s Board of Directors shall consist of 11 Members.

The Board of Directors of Rostelecom also approved a list of nominees to the Company’s Audit Commission to be elected at the AGM.