OREANDA-NEWS. The Board of Directors of JSOC Bashneft considered issues related to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company to be held on June 27, 2013 and approved the following list of candidates nominated to the new Board

1. Vitaliy Artyukhov

2. Alexey Buyanov

3. Charles Watson

4. Randall Gossen

5. Alexander Goncharuk

6. Sergey Drozdov

7. Felix Evtushenkov

8. Alexander Korsik

9. Yury Pustovgarov

10. Vsevolod Rozanov

11. Mikhail Cherniy

The Board of Directors also approved the form and wording of the ballots for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 27, 2013

The Board decided to place six issues of JSOC Bashneft’s exchange-traded bonds worth a total of 40 billion roubles with the maturity of up to 10 years (two issues worth 10 billion roubles each and four issues worth 5 billion roubles each) in order to create a set of available tools for raising short-term funds and opportunities for further optimizing the Company’s debt portfolio.

The Board of Directors reduced the number of members of Bashneft’s Management Board to 14 persons and removed Valentin Timakov, a member of the Management Board and the Vice President for Human Resources, from the Management Board.