OREANDA-NEWS. Sistema JSFC ("Sistema" or the "Company") (LSE: SSA), the largest publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, today announces that it has successfully completed a secondary placement of Series 03 bonds with a par value of RUB 1,000. The bonds will mature on November 24, 2016. The Series 03 bonds were placed at the price of 100.65% of the nominal value, which corresponds to an effective yield to maturity of 8.72% per annum. The secondary placement raised RUB 10 billion at its nominal value. The order books were almost two times oversubscribed, with total demand reaching approximately RUB 18.8 billion. The coupon has been set at 8.75% per annum.

Gazprombank and ZAO Raiffeisenbank acted as the issue's organisers.

Sistema is the largest publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, which invests in and is a major shareholder of companies serving over 100 million customers in the sectors of telecommunications, high technology, oil and energy, radars and aerospace, banking, retail, mass-media, tourism and healthcare services. Founded in 1993, the company reported revenues of USD 8.8 billion for the third quarter of 2012, and total assets of USD 46.3 billion as at September 30, 2012. Sistema's global depository receipts are listed under the symbol "SSA" on the London Stock Exchange. Sistema's ordinary shares are listed under the symbol "AFKS" on the MICEX-RTS Stock Exchange, and under the symbol "SIST" on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MSE). Sistema was ranked number 315 in the 2011 edition of the Fortune Global 500 list. Website: www.sistema.com

The Company is not an investment company, and is not and will not be registered as such, under the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940.

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