OJSC Rostelecom OJSC North Western Telecom OJSC CenterTelecom OJSC Southern Telecom Company OJSC VolgaTelecom OJSC Uralsvyazinform OJSC SibirTelecom OJSC Dalsvyaz OJSC Central Telegraph OJSC Giprosvyaz

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Telecommunications Minister Igor Schegolev has been elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Svyazinvest. His appointment was unanimously supported at the first meeting of the new Board of Directors of Svyazinvest (hereinafter, the Company), which took place on August 20, 2010.

Sibirtelecom (hereinafter, the Company) performed in full its obligation to buy back the shares presented by the Company’s shareholders for buyback, in line with the ongoing reorganization as a merger using Rostelecom as the consolidation hub.

Far East Telecom hereby announces the decisions approved by the Company’s Board of Directors.

On August 16, 2010 CenterTelecom held a meeting of the Board of Directors, at which issues were discussed relating to the preparations for an extraordinary general shareholders meeting to be held (hereinafter, EGM).

On August 16, 2010 a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company was held, at which the Report on the Results of Shares Presented by the Shareholders of CenterTelecom for Buyback was approved.

On August 16, 2010 North-West Telecom held a meeting of the Board of Directors, at which issues were discussed relating to the preparations for an extraordinary general shareholders meeting to be held (hereinafter, EGM).

Krasnodar, August 16, 2010 Southern Telecommunications Company (UTK), the largest fixed-line telecommunications operator in the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts of Russia, hereby announces that the Board of Directors of UTK (minutes # 5 dated August 16, 2010) adopted the following decision:

Yesterday, on August 16, 2010, a meeting of the Board of Directors was held at which issues were discussed relating to the preparation and conduct of the extraordinary general shareholders meeting of Sibirtelecom (hereinafter, the Company) by way of absentee voting.

The meeting is to be held in the form of absentee voting. The cutoff date for accepting ballot sheets is November 8, 2010. The address to which completed ballot sheets may be mailed is the following: Post Office Box 151, OAO ORK, Moscow, 115280. The record date for persons eligible to participate in the extraordinary shareholders meeting is September 20, 2010.

On August 16, 2010 the Board of Directors of Uralsvyazinform adopted the decision to convene an extraordinary general shareholders meeting in the form of absentee voting and approved the agenda of the meeting. In addition, a recommendation was made to the EGM to adopt a decision to pay out 9M 2010 dividends (this is the first time the company would disburse interim dividends).

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