OREANDA-NEWS. Rostelecom (NYSE: ROS; RTS, MICEX: RTKM, RTKMP), Russia’s national long-distance telecommunications operator, today announced the results of its Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting (AGM) held on June 16, 2007, as well as the decisions of the new Board of Directors.

Members of the new Board of Directors were elected:

1. Mikhail Alexeev, Representative of Svyazinvest;
2. Yevgeny Chechelnitsky, Deputy General Director of Svyazinvest;
3. Valery Degtyarev, General Director of Professional Telecommunications;
4. Anatoly Gavrilenko, General Director of Asset Management Company Leader;
5. Alexander Kiselev, General Director of Svyazinvest;
6. Sergei Kuznetsov, Representative of Svyazinvest;
7. Yevgeny Logovinsky, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of SOGAZ Insurance Group;
8. Nikolai Mylnikov, Director of Legal Department of CIT Finance Investment Bank;
9. Elena Selvich, Executive Director – Director of Economy and Finance Department of Svyazinvest;
10. Maxim Tsyganov, Moscow office Managing Director of CIT Finance Investment Bank;
11. Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Director of Corporate Finance Department of CIT Finance Investment Bank.  

At the Board of Directors’ meeting held after the AGM, Alexander Kiselev, General Director of Svyazinvest, was elected as Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors, and Sergei Kuznetsov, Representative of Svyazinvest, was elected as Deputy Chairman of the Board.