Moscow, Russian Federation – PJSC MTS (NYSE: MBT, MOEX: MTSS), the leading telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS, announces the decisions reached at the meeting of the Board of Directors (“BoD” or “the Board”) held on February 22, 2017.

At the meeting, the Board took the following decisions:

• Appointment of Andrey Dubovskov the President of MTS for a three-year term starting since March 05, 2017;
• Election of members to the Management Board:
  Andrey Dubovskov - Chairman of the Management Board
  Alexey Kornya
  Mikhail Arkhipov
  Kirill Dmitriev
  Ruslan Ibragimov
  Andrei Ushatskiy
  Igor Yegorov
  Vasyl Latsanych
  Andrei Smelkov
  Valery Shorzhin
• Approval of certain related-party transactions.

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For further information, please contact in Moscow:

Joshua B. Tulgan
Director, Department of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations
Mobile TeleSystems PJSC
Tel: +7 495 223 2025
E-mail: ir@mts.ru