On August 23, 2004 a session of the Board of Directors of OJSC North-West Telecom was held , with the following items on its agenda:  

• Premature termination of the authority of S. I. Kuznetsov as General director of the Company.  
• Appointment of V. A. Akulich as General director of the Company.
• Changes in the list of the Company’s Executive Board.
• Extending the agenda of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company’s shareholders with the item of “Approval of the Company Auditor for the Year 2004”.
• Approval of the format and text of the voting tickets to be used at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on September 20, 2004. 

Board of Directors decided on :

• Premature termination of the authority of S. I. Kuznetsov as General director of the Company.
• Appointment of V. A. Akulich as General director of the Company for a term of two years.
• Remove S. I. Kuznetsov from the Company’s Executive Board.
• Appoint V. A. Akulich as a member of the Company’s Executive Board.
• Extending the agenda of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company’s shareholders with the item of “Approval of the Company Auditor for the Year 2004”.
• Instructing the Company’s Executive Board to publish the revision of the agenda the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders.
• Supplementing the list of information (materials) submitted to shareholders in the preparation for the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on September 20, 2004 with information on the nominee for the Company Auditor.