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;
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