27 March, 2008, Moscow: COMSTAR – United TeleSystems JSC (COMSTAR-UTS, LSE: CMST) the leading supplier of integrated telecommunication solutions in Russia and the CIS, announces that extraordinary general shareholders meeting of JSC Regional Technical Center (RTC), member of COMSTAR-UTS Group, approved new members of JSC RTC’s Board of Directors at the meeting on 24 March 2008.

The following members were elected to RTC’s BoD:

Kirill Andreychenko, Director for corporate governance and legal issues, JSC COMSTAR-UTS;

Denis Badretdinov, Director of the network strategic development Department, JSC COMSTAR-UTS;

Dmitri Karmanov, HR Director, JSC COMSTAR-UTS;

Victor Koresh, Vice president for regional development, JSC COMSTAR-UTS;

Anatoly Krainev, Director of Department for management and business development of Subsidiaries of JSC COMSTAR_UTS;

Oleg Filippov, Director of research and analytics Department, JSC COMSTAR-UTS;

Vladislav Yablonskikh, Director of planning and management accounts Department, JSC COMSTAR UTS.

V. Koresh was elected Chairman of JSC RTS’s BoD.