Vadim Viktorovich Semenov

Telecommunication Investment Joint Stock Company (Svyazinvest) is one of the largest telecom holding companies in the world. Its charter capital was formed by consolidation of shares owned by the federal government in regional telecom operators, set up in the process of telecom sector privatization. Svyazinvest incorporates 7 large mega-regional telecom operators, OJSC Giprosvyaz and OJSC Rostelecom, the national domestic long-distance and international operator. Svyazinvest network covers nearly the whole of Russia and its capacity makes up over 90% of the total country's capacity. The holding company's subsidiaries operate public telephone networks which installed capacity is over 33 million telephone lines (of January 1, 2009). Subsidiaries have licenses for provision of local, domestic long-distance and international telephone services, data transmission, etc. They also provide ISDN services, wireless subscriber access and mobile services.

Sky Link JSC provides cellular communications services. It offers multimedia messaging system, receiving and making calls, postpaid & prepaid packages, and information services such as news, weather, and horoscope messages. The company was founded in June 2003 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

Uralsvyazinform OJSC provides telephone network, mobile, and Internet data services to customers. The firm offers local, long distance and international telephone services, including fixed line, mobile, and data communications, Internet, TV and radio. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ekaterinburg, Russian.

Rostelecom-North West is a privately held telecommunications company. Its services include local and international telephone communication services of data transmission, access to the Internet , lease of channels , IP-TV, call centers, provision of telegraph services, provision of Internet access solutions, provision of data transmission network services, provision of intelligent network services and provision of audio and video conference services. The company was founded in November 2001 and is headquartered St. Petersburg, Russia.

Rostelecom-Volga is one of the largest telecommunication companies which provides a wide range of telephony, cellular, Internet and data transmission, TV and radio broadcasting, voice mail, paging and mobile communication services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.