Open joint stock company South Telecommunications Company hereby advises that a routine meeting of the Board of Directors (Minutes # 7 dated March 5, 2003) was held at which a resolution was passed to include the following individuals to the list of eligible candidates for which voting is to be held at the annual general shareholders meeting in 2003:
- nominations for the Board of Directors include:
1. Slanislav Petrosovich Avdiyants executive director head of the economic and tariff policy department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
2. Vadim Yevgenievich Belov deputy director general of OJSC Svyazinvest;
3. Mikhail Borisovich Vasilyev head of the Saint Petersburg representative office of NCH Advisors Inc.;
4. Igor Velgelmovich Volkovsky head of authorized presidential envoys to the Southern Federal district;
5. Vladimir Lukich Gorbachev director general of South Telecommunications Company
6. Vladimir Vladimirovich Dudchenko head of Research Department of the Moscow representative office of NCH Advisors Inc.;
7. Gennady Ivanovich Kovalenko head of Legal Department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
8. Denis Viktorivich Kukilov expert of non-commercial organization Association for the Protection of Investors Rights (Moscow);
9. Alexander Leonidovich Merzlenko vice-president of OOO Renaissance Capital;
10. Stanislav Nikolayevich Panchenko deputy director general of OJSC Svyazinvest;
11. Oxana Valyerevna Petrova deputy head of the Corporate Governance Department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
12. Alexander Alexandrovich Remezkov first deputy head of the administration of Krasnodar krai;
13. Georgy Alexeyevich Romsky deputy general director of OJSC Svyazinvest;
14. Irina Petrovna Ukhina deputy director of the Corporate Governance Department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
15. Andrey Anatolyevich Shchepilov chief specialist of the Securities Department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
- nominations for the Audit Committee include:
1. Natalya Vladimirovna Boyarskikh chief accountant of the kurbankelektrosvyaz branch of South Telecommunications Company
2. Lyubov Alexandrovna Greseva chief expert of the Internal Audit and Economic Analysis Department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
3. Vladimir Vladimirovich Kozin deputy director head of corporate finance and direct investments department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
4. Irina Viktorovna Prokovyeva deputy director head of internal audit and economic analysis department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
5. Kirill Viktorovich Frolov leading expert of internal audit and economic analysis department of OJSC Svyazinvest;
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