OREANDA-NEWS. November 3, 2010. The board of directors of Uralsvyazinform at a meeting, held in the form of absentee voting, adopted a decision to convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (EGM).

The board of directors of Uralsvyazinform reviewed a request received from Svyazinvest to convene an EGM.

In accordance with Article 55.3 of the Federal Law “On Joint Stock Companies”, in case a request to convene an EGM is received from a shareholder that owns at least 10% of the Company’s voting shares, the board of directors shall adopt a decision on convening an EGM or refuse to convene said meeting within five days after the date on which the request was made.  Svyazinvest is the holder of 16,608,946,183 common shares of Uralsvyazinform (51.42% of its voting shares).

Uralsvyazinform’s EGM will be held in the form of joint presence on January 21, 2011.  The agenda of the EGM will be approved at the next board of directors meeting of Uralsvyazinform.  The record date for the meeting has been set as October 28, 2010.

A decision was also adopted at the meeting to re-elect the chairman of the board of directors.  The powers of Evgeny Yurchenko were terminated, and Alexander Provotorov was elected chairman of the board of directors.