Moscow, January 11, 2005. Sistema, the largest private sector consumer services company in Russia and the CIS, today announced that theRussian Federal Service for the Financial Markets approved an additional issue of 1.55 million ordinary shares in addition to the current 8.1 million ordinary shares currently outstanding. The new issue represents an increase of 19% of currently outstanding shares which constitutes 16% of the newly approved total amount.
For further information, please contact:
Sistema Investor Relations Shared Value Limited
Andre Bliznyuk Edward Baumgartner
Tel: +7 095 730 1543 Tel. +44 (0) 20 7321 5037
bliznyuk@sistema.ru sistema@sharedvalue.net
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