Moscow, Russia - February 6, 2013 - Sistema JSFC ("Sistema" or the "Company") (LSE: SSA), the largest publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, today announces that it has successfully completed a secondary placement of Series 03 bonds with a par value of RUB 1,000. The bonds will mature on November 24, 2016. The Series 03 bonds were placed at the price of 100.65% of the nominal value, which corresponds to an effective yield to maturity of 8.72% per annum. The secondary placement raised RUB 10 billion at its nominal value. The order books were almost two times oversubscribed, with total demand reaching approximately RUB 18.8 billion. The coupon has been set at 8.75% per annum.

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