OREANDA-NEWS. June 9, 2012. Polyus Gold International Limited (the "Company") announces that, at the General Meeting held earlier today, all the resolutions set out in the Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting dated 17 May 2012 were passed. As previously announced, the Company expects to apply for admission of its entire ordinary share capital to the premium listing segment of the Official List and to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange with effect from start of trading on or about 19 June 2012. The resolutions passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting, which included adoption of new Articles of Association, are conditional on admission having occurred.

Polyus Gold International is the largest gold producer in Russia and one of the top 10 gold miners globally by ounces produced (1.5 million ounces of gold production in 2011).

The Company holds the world’s third largest gold reserves with about 91 million ounces of proven and probable gold reserves underpinning the Polyus Gold’s sector-leading production growth profile (8% increase in gold production in 2011 to 2010).

The Company’s principal operations are located in Russia’s most prolific gold mining provinces in Eastern Siberia and the Far East and in Kazakhstan and include 9 operating mines, alluvial operations and several advanced development projects.