An ordinary meeting of Gazprom’s Board of Directors will take place on 17 May, at 3pm Moscow time. The meeting agenda will be as follows:

• Approving the Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders’ Meeting agenda;
• Identifying the Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders’ Meeting time and venue (including postal address where the filled out voting ballots can be sent to);
• The list of information (materials) distributed among shareholders in the course of preparations for the Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders’ Meeting and the disclosure rules;
• The voting ballot format and wording;
• The shareholders’ advisory on the Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders’ Meeting;
• Gazprom’s (the parent company’s) annual financial accounts over 2004 filed in accordance with the Russian legislation;
• Gazprom’s annual report for 2004;
• Allocating Gazprom’s 2004 net earnings;
• Advising on the annual dividend amount, timing and payment method;
• The Gazprom’s Board of Directors and Audit Commission’s remuneration;
• The Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders’ Meeting Presidium and Chairman;
• Draft amendments to the Gazprom’s Articles of Association;
• Draft amendments to the Gazprom’s Board of Directors Guidelines;
• The work being done to regain corporate control over Nortgaz (to recover the North Urengoy field development license).

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