Ordinary shares of Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications" stop trading on RTS markets

Effective June 3, 2010 ordinary registered shares of Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications" (RTS Classica ticker – VIMP, RTS T+0 Market ticker – VIMPG)will stop trading on RTS markets, due to exclusion from the section "Unlisted securities admitted to trading".

The securities are removed from the list of instruments on the issuer’s initiative.

RTS Classica is the oldest organized stock market in Russia – trading was opened on July 5, 1995. The prices that are discovered on RTS Classica are a well-acknowledged guideline for the investors who trade in Russian shares and depositary receipts representing them. RTS market data is transmitted to a large number of clients in Russia and abroad and is a basis for calculation of the main benchmark of the Russian stock market – RTS Index.

Trading on the RTS T+0 Market is held on the basis of anonymous trading of Order-Driven Market using a "Delivery Versus Payment" technology with 100% advance depositing of assets.

For further information, please contact the RTS Public Relations Department at +7(495)705-9031.