Gioulnara Khasianova appointed Commercial Director of Rostelecom

Rostelecom (NYSE: ROS; RTS: RTKM), Russia’s national long-distance telecommunications operator, today announced that Gioulnara Khasianova was appointed Deputy General Director, Commercial Director of Rostelecom.

Gioulnara Khasianova was born in Moscow. In 1992 graduated from the Moscow University of Telecommunications and Information majoring in economics and management in telecommunications. In 1992 she joined OJSC Intercity and International Telephone (ММТ), since 2000 — branch of Rostelecom, where she sequentially held positions of Marketing specialist in the Marketing, Advertising & Information Laboratory, Head of the Marketing Department, Head of the Economics and Marketing Division, Head of the Business Development Division. In 2001, Gioulnara was appointed Head of the Marketing Department of Rostelecom and since 2002 she had been working in the position of Deputy Commercial Director of the Company.

Gioulnara Khasianova completed training programs at Deutsche Telekom AG, France Telecom and Iskratel (Slovenia). She also completed a course in Marketing, Management and Finance Management in Telecommunications Companies at the Duke University (USA) as well as Financial Business Course in Los Angeles (USA).

“This appointment marks another important event in the course of the new marketing strategy implementation by Rostelecom aimed at establishing a cooperation model between the Company, its partners and clients — operators and subscribers — to ensure balance of interests and to equalize tariffs for uniform services. Gioulnara’s professional knowledge and vast working experience at Rostelecom will allow to further strengthen the Company’s position in the telecommunications market”, — said Sergei Kuznetsov, General Director of Rostelecom.