Based on the voting held during Gazprom’s Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting, 11 people were elected to the Company’s Board of Directors.

The newly elected members of the Board of Directors were voted for in the following way:

1.	Ananenkov Alexander Georgievich	Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee	20,589,798,371
2.	Bergmann Burckhard	Chairman of the Management Committee of Ruhrgas AG	19,035,855,019
3.	Gazizullin Farit Rafikovich		21,243,124,028
4.	Gref German Oskarovich	Economic Development and Trade Minister of the Russian Federation	20,752,201,872
5.	Karpel Elena Yevgenievna	Head of Gazprom’s Economic Expertise and Pricing Department	20,293,612,981
6.	Medvedev Dmitry Anatolievich	Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation	22,124,427,821
7.	Miller Alexey Borisovich	Gazprom’s Management Committee Chairman	22,216,091,884
8.	Sereda Mikhail Leonidovich	Head of Gazprom’s Management Committee Administration	21,708,846,166
9.	Fedorov Boris Grigorievich	Gazprom’s Shareholder	17,408,204,681
10.	Khristenko Viktor Borisovich	Industry and Energy Minister of the Russian Federation	20,640,405,604
11.	Yusufov Igor Khanukovich		20,541,513,389

48,510,123 shareholders voted against all candidates and 15,342,374 abstained from voting.

The Meeting also re-elected the 9-member Auditing Commission and ratified a handful of transactions of corporate interest, to be potentially executed by the Company while carrying on usual business.

At the same time, the Meeting did not approve amendments to the Company’s Articles of Association, brought forward by a group of shareholders holding a total of 2.29% of corporate shares.

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