OREANDA-NEWS. April 11, 2014. Sistema JSFC ("Sistema") (LSE: SSA), the largest publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, announces that it has received official notification from the Moscow Exchange that the Company has met the requirements for a category A2 listing on the exchangee and has entered A2.

Taking into account the listing reform at the Moscow Exchange, which is due to be held in June 2014, the upgrade from a category B listing to category A2 sees Sistema's shares enter into the highest Moscow Exchange quotation list.

Sistema is the largest publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, which invests in and is a major shareholder of companies serving over 100 million customers in the sectors of telecommunications, high technology, oil and energy, radars and aerospace, banking, retail, mass-media, tourism and healthcare services.

Sistema was ranked number 308 in the 2013 edition of the Fortune Global 500 list. Website: www.sistema.com