OJSC Khantymansiiskokrtelecom held its AGM today.  The meeting was attended by shareholders and their representatives owning a majority of the company's voting shares. 

В АО "Хантымансийскокртелеком" состоялось сегодня годовое общее собрание акционеров. В нем приняли участие собственники акций и их представители, владеющие % голосующих акций.  

Shareholders approved the annual business performance report as well as the 2001 financial statement and agreed with a proposal by the Board of Directors to pay out Rub 1.42 in dividends on common shares (9.47% of par value), while the amount of preferred shares was fixed by the Company as 10% of the nominal value of shares. Shareholder revenue, which stood at Rub 33.4 (15.7% of net profit) is to be paid out by December 31, 2002.  

One of the main issues on the agenda for discussion at the meeting was approval of the new version of the Company charter and the Regulations of its governing bodies.  The Charter and Regulations need to be revised due to the entry into force of the new edition of the law "On Joint Stock Companies". 

Shareholders also elected the audit committee, appointed OOO Top Audit as the company's official auditor, and in unison with other regional telecoms, adopted a resolution to become a member of ISKRA, the Association for Federal Business Service Operators.  

After the voting was held the new composition of the Board of Directors was as follows: 

Gaji A. Amirov            - vice chairman of the government of the Khanty-Mansiisk  autonomous region; 

Vadim Yu. Baldenkov - vice director of the director of Corporate Finance Department and Direct Investments of Svyazinvest; 

Andrey Ya. Belobokov  - vice general director of OJSC Uralsvyazinform; 

Vadim S. Belyaev   -  director general of OJSC VEO Discovery; 

Eduard V. Lebedev  - director general of OJSC Khantymansiiskokrtelecom;  

Alexander A. Litvinov  - head of securities department of OJSC Svyazinvest; 

Alexander V. Lopatin  - vice director general of OAO Svyazinvest; 

Andrey V. Obukhov  - vice head of Securities Department of OJSC Svyazinvest; 

Viktor D. Savchenko  - director of legal department of OJSC Svyazinvest.