On September 23, 2010 the Kommersant newspaper published the annual Russian Managers Top 1000 rating made by this influential business daily jointly with the Russian Managers Association (AMR). This year, you will see on the pages of the Kommersant, along with the chief executives, the names of the best managers in eight functional areas.

By the results of the Top 200 rating, Vladimir Alexandrovich Akulich, Chief Executive Officer, JSC North-West Telecom became No. 5 among the chief executives in the communication industry.

The top five of Russia’s best top managers in the communication industry, Top 100, included:

- Oleg Viktorovich Popov, Deputy General Director & Commercial Director, N.W.Telecom – in the Commercial Managers Rating 2010;

- Ella Ivanovna Tomilina, Deputy General Director (Corporate Affairs), N.W.Telecom – in the Corporate Governance Managers Rating 2010;

- Pavel Vladimirovich Basov, Director, Strategic Business Development and Marketing Department, N.W.Telecom – in the Marketing Managers Rating 2010.

- Venera Adykhamovna Khusnutdinova, Deputy General Director & Chief Financial Officer, N.W.Telecom.

Noted I. V. Tambovskaya, Deputy General Director & Personnel Management Director, “Actually from the moment of establishment of N.W.Telecom, its managers are annually named in the Russian Managers Top 1000. This indicates recognition by the professional community of not only the scale and importance of North-West Telecom, but also high professionalism and reputation of its top managers. It is encouraging that managers of N.W.Telecom (St. Petersburg) were among few top managers of regional companies named in the rating. The efficiency of our Company and its team of managers received a decent and deserved independent assessment.”