Moscow, Russian Federation – Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (“MTS” or the “Company” – NYSE: MBT; MOEX: MTSS), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, announces the decisions reached at the Company’s Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (the “EGM”) held on September 30, 2016.

At the meeting, the following resolutions were adopted:

• To approve semi-annual dividends of RUB 11.99 per ordinary MTS share (RUB 23.98 per ADR), or a total of RUB 23.961 billion (RUB 23,960,595,084.25) on the basis of the Company’s H1 2016 financial and operating results;
• To set the record date for the Company’s shareholders and ADR-holders entitled to receive dividends for October 14, 2016.

The dividend payment will be completed before November 21, 2016.

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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