Rostelecom signs state contract with the Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency to participate in a portion of the Unified State Exam video surveillance project

Rostelecom OJSC (MOEX - RTS: RTKM, RTKMP; OTCQX: ROSYY), Russia’s national telecommunications operator, today announces that it has signed a RUB 200 million state contract with the Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency for organising video surveillance across the Russian Federation during the Unified State Exam in 2015. The contract will last between 14 February and 30 September 2015. This year, additional expenses, including rent of channels, which account for a substantial part of overall project costs, will be covered by regional governments. Rostelecom will participate in regional tenders for delivering those services.

Rostelecom will use its own infrastructure, which spans the Russian Federation, to implement the project. The Company will utilise video servers in seven inter-regional data processing centres (Moscow, St Petersburg, Krasnodar, Samara, Ekaterinburg, Kochenevo in the Novosibirsk region and Knyaze-Volkonskoe in the Khabarovsk region) and two regional data processing centres (Magadan and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky). Rostelecom will also organise mobile teams to implement this project, which will involve more than 5,000 employees.

Olga Rumyantseva, Vice President, Corporate and Government Segments, commented: “Rostelecom’s video surveillance systems ensured that the Unified State Exam was conducted with objectivity and transparency throughout the Russian Federation in 2014, thus validating our approach. Rostelecom is the only operator in Russia that has both the technical expertise and the network to undertake such a project and our growing track record for delivering such projects bodes well for the 2015 Unified State Exams.”