OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 May 2009 was announced, that the Board of Directors of Uralsvyazinform approved on April 24, 2009 the agenda of its annual general shareholders meeting, which is scheduled to be held on June 4, 2009 in Perm. In addition, the Board of Directors made a recommendation for the meeting to approve the amount of dividends for the 2008 financial year and put forward a candidate for the company’s 2009 auditor.

 AGM agenda

To approve the Company’s annual financial statement, the accounting reports, including the profit & loss statement (P&L statement), and also the allocation of profits (including payment of dividends) and losses of the Company in the 2008 financial year.

To elect the members of the Board of Directors of Uralsvyazinform.

To elect members of the Audit Committee of Uralsvyazinform.

To make amendments to the Charter of Uralsvyazinform.

To make amendments to the Statute on the Board of Directors of Uralsvyazinform.

To terminate the participation of Uralsvyazinform in the Association for CDMA Network Operators.

To approve the 2009 auditor of Uralsvyazinform.

To approve the statutory rate of deductions for the annual remuneration of members of Uralsvyazinform.

Subject to approval by the annual general shareholders meeting are the annual financial statement, the annual accounting reports, including the profit and loss statement, and also the allocation of profit in 2008.

The annual general shareholders meeting has been recommended to pay out 2008 dividends as follows:

0.034175ruble per share for preferred shares;

0.012437ruble per share for common shares.

The total amount of dividend payments, if approved at the meeting, would amount to RUR 669.5 mln, or 25% of Uralsvyazinform’s 2008 RAS net profit.  The rest of net profit (retained), which amounts to RUR 2,009,400,000 has been recommended for allocation to the Company’s shareholder equity.

The auditor of Uralsvyazinform, which is to conduct a mandatory audit of the operator’s accounting records and financial reports based on Russian Accounting Standards and international financial reporting standards was recommended by the Board of Directors as KPMG, which was earlier recognized as the winner of a tender for audit firms.

As reported earlier, the annual general shareholders meeting of Uralsvyazinform is to be held at the following address:

2 Krupskaya St., Perm, Russia

, 614060.  The record date used to determine the list of people eligible to attend the annual general shareholders meeting of Uralsvyazinform is April 15, 2009.

The materials which shareholders should submit to prepare for the annual general shareholders meeting are available, beginning May 4, 2009 from 8.30 am until 3:30 pm at the following address:

11 Moskovskaya St., Yekaterinburg, 620014

134bLunacharskogoSt.,Yekaterinburg, 620110

44 Gogolya St, Kurgan, 640000

68 Lenina St, Perm, 614096

40 RespublikiSt, bld. 1, Tyumen, 625000

161 Kirova St, Chelyabinsk, 454000

3 Kominterna St, Khanty-Mansiisk, 628011

Matrosova St, Salekhard, 629008

48 Nikoloyamskaya, bld 2, Moscow, 2109004