Moscow, Russia - MTS PJSC (NYSE: MBT, MOEX: MTSS), the leading telecommunications operator and digital service provider in Russia, announces the decisions reached at the meeting of the Board of Directors (“BoD” or “the Board”) held on July 27, 2018.

At the meeting, the Board took the following decisions:

·                                 To set September 28, 2018, as the date of the Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders (“the EGM”);

·                                 To set the record date for the Company’s shareholders entitled to participate in the EGM for September 4, 2018;

·                                 To recommend that the EGM approves semi-annual dividends of RUB 2.6 per ordinary MTS share (RUB 5.2 per ADR), or a total of RUB 5.2 billion (RUB 5,195,790,802.80), based on H1 2018 financial results;

·                                 To recommend that the EGM set the record date for shareholders entitled to receive dividends for H1 2018 for October 9, 2018;

·                                 Approval of the cost for audit services; and

·                                 Approval of the agenda for the EGM, as well as procedures surrounding the preparation and organization of the EGM, which will include approval of participation of MTS PJSC in non-profit organizations.

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For further information, please contact in Moscow:

Investor Relations Department 
Mobile TeleSystems PJSC 
Tel: +7 495 223 2025 
E-mail: ir@mts.ru