OREANDA-NEWS. June 29, 2009. Based on the voting results the annual General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom has formed the Company’s Board of Directors.

The cumulative votes for 11 candidates elected to the Board of Directors are as follows:Ananenkov Alexander Georgievich
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom - Bergmann Burckhard;
Member of the Board of Directors, Gazprom - Gazizullin Farit Rafikovich;
Member of the Board of Directors, Gazprom Karpel Elena Evgenievna;
Head of the Department for Pricing and Economic Expert Analysis, Gazprom - Miller Alexey Borisovich;
Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom - Musin Valery Abramovich;
Head of the Civil Procedure Department, Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University 
- Nabiullina Elvira Sakhipzadovna;
Economic Development Minister of the Russian Federation - Sereda Mikhail Leonidovich;
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee – Head of the Administration of the Management Committee, Gazprom - Shmatko Sergey Ivanovich;
Energy Minister of the Russian Federation - Yusufov Igor Khanukovich;
Special Envoy of the Russian Federation President for International Energy Cooperation -
Zubkov Viktor Alexeevich;
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation 

5 926 679 votes were against all candidates, with 19 547 917 submitted as voting abstentions.

The Shareholders Meeting also re-elected the 9-member Audit Commission and ratified a number of interested party transactions to be potentially executed by Gazprom in future within regular business activities.