OREANDA-NEWS. February 08, 2011. The Board of Directors of Rostelecom (RTS and MICEX: RTKM, RTKMP; OTCQX: ROSYY) elected Vladimir Bondarik today as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company.

Mr. Bondarik was born on November 7, 1957.  He graduated in 1980 from the Moscow Physics and Technical Institute with a major in Radio Engineering Devices.

In 1977-1991 he worked as senior lab technician, engineer, senior engineer, leading engineer at Central Design Bureau Almaz.  From 1991 until 2000 he was sector head, division head, head of laboratory, first deputy director of state unitary enterprise GKNPTs named after M.V. Khrunbichev.  In 2001 he was appointed deputy general director of development and maintenance of the telecommunications networks of state unitary enterprise Svyazstroy.  In 2004-2005 he headed up Sensory Systems.  From 2005-2009 he worked as deputy general director, then managing and general director of Royalcom.  In March 2009 he was named deputy general director of Svyazinvest.

Mr. Bondarik has a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences.