The meeting of the Board of Directors related to preparation of the annual General Meeting of JSC “IDGC of the North-West” Shareholders that will, particularly, determine the date of Shareholders Meeting, will be held on May, 6, 2013.

The JSC “IDGC of the North-West” Board of Directors discussed the proposals made by shareholders and approved the voting list for election of the Company’s Board of Directors. 21 candidates were nominated for 11 seats.

Among them eleven were proposed by JSC “IDGC Holding” (owns 55.38% of the company), and ten are candidates of minority shareholders: “Energosouz Holdings Limited” (5.65 %), “Energyo Solutions Russia (Cyprus) Limited» (16.41 %), “Memphito Limited” (4.57 %), JSC “MMC Norilsk Nickel” (2.56%).

IDGC Holding proposed the following candidates: Andrei Murov, JSC “FGC UES” First Deputy Chairman, JSC “IDGC Holding” Executive Director; Valery Ageev, General Director, JSC “FGC UES” branch – Backbone Electric Grids (MES) of the North-West; Astkhik Bashinjagian, Chief Specialist-Expert, Corporate Governance Division, Department of Corporate Governance, Pricing Environment and Audits&Examinations in fuel and energy sector of Ministry of Energy of Russia; Irina Gracheva, Head of Securities Division, Department of Corporate Governance and shareholder relations, JSC “IDGC Holding”; Gennady Martsinkovsky, Department for Capital Construction, JSC “IDGC Holding”; Maria Merzlikina, Head of the Department of Corporate Finance, JSC “FGC UES”; Vladimir Sofyin, JSC “FGC UES” Director of Innovation Development; Sergey Titov, General Director, JSC “IDGC of the North-West”; Dmitry Chevkin, HR Director, JSC “FGC UES”; Yulia Chermenteeva, Deputy Head of the Legislative Support Department, JSC “IDGC Holding"; Svetlana Balaeva, Head of the Investment Department, JSC “IDGC Holding”.

“Energosouz Holdings Limited” proposed Tatyana Dronova, Deputy General Director of Strategy and Development, JSC “Energosouz Holdings Limited”, and Alexey Zharikov, Director of Corporate Policy and Shareholder Relations, JSC “Electrotsentronaladka”, to include in the voting list for election of the JSC “IDGC of the North-West” Board of Directors.
“Energyo Solutions Russia (Cyprus) Limited” proposed the following candidates: Seppo Remes, Kiuru LLC General Director, Chairman, EOS Russia Board of Directors; Sergey Pokrovsky, Deputy Executive Director, Investor Protection Association; Denis Kulikov, Executive Director, Investor Protection Association. The latter was also proposed by “Memphito Limited”.

“Memphito Limited” also proposed to include in the JSC “IDGC of the North-West” Board of Directors Igor Repin, Deputy Executive Director, Investor Protection Association, and three representatives of Prosperity Capital Management (RF) Ltd. – Alexander Branis, Director of the Company; Denis Spirin, Director of Corporate Governance, Representative Office of the Company; and Roman Filkin, Co-Director (Electroenergetics, machine building), Representative Office of the Company.

“MMC Norilsk Nickel” proposed Maria Ochirova, Director of Corporate Department, JSC “MMC Norilsk Nickel”.
The meeting of the Board of Directors related to preparation of the annual General Meeting of JSC “IDGC of the North-West” Shareholders that will, particularly, determine the date of Shareholders Meeting, will be held on May, 6, 2013.