The Board of Directors, after reviewing proposals from shareholders at its meeting on March 5, 2004(Minutes # 35) in accordance with the approved legislative procedures, passed a resolution to include the following nominees to the list of those eligible for election as members of the board of directors of STC at the next annual general shareholders meetings: 

-          Stanislav Petrovich Avdiyants, Executive director-head of tariff policy department of Svyazinvest; 

-          Vadim Yevgenyevich Belov,  Deputy general director of Svyazinvest; 

-          Mikhail Borisovich Vasilyevich, Head of the St. Petersburgrepresentative office of NCH Advisors, Inc.

-          Igor Vilgelmovich Volkovysky, Head of organizing department of the RF presidential administration; 

-          Vladimir Lukich Gorbachev, First deputy chairman of the Duma Committee for Energy, Transport and Communications; 

-          Vladimir Vladimirovich Dudchenko, Head of Research Department of Moscow representative office of NCH Advisors, Inc. (area of business - advisory);

-          Dmitry Gregoryevich Yefimov, Head of an independent team of directors of the Association for the Protection of Investors’ Rights (non-commercial organization), Moscow;

-          Ivan Fedorovich Ignatenko, General director of STC;

-          Denis Viktorovich Kulikov, Expert for the Association for the Protection of Investors’ Rights (non-commercial organization), Moscow;

-         Andrei Vladimirovich Morozov, Attorney at the Moscow representative office of NCH Advisors, Inc.

-          Stanislav Nikolaevich Panchenko, Deputy general director of Svyazinvest;

-          Ilya Vladimorovich Ponomarev, Head of the business planning and budgeting department of Svyazinevst; 

-          Georgy Alexeyevich Romsky,  Deputy general director of Svyazinvest;

-          Elena Vladimirovna Umnova, Head of Finance Department of Svyazinvest;  

-          Irina Petrovna Ukhina, Deputy director of corporate governance department of Svyazinvest; 

-          Andrei Anatolyevich Shepilov,   Head of the shareholder equity department of Svyazinvest;