Rostelecom shareholders at their annual general meeting on August 7 have approved a new composition of the board of directors. The new members of the board are VTB management board head Andrei Kostin, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, Sogaz management board head Anton Ustinov, as well as chair of the Yandex Public Interest Foundation Elena Shmeleva. Former Russian communications minister Nikolai Nikiforov and Konstantin Noskov left the board, as did Alexander Ausan, an advisor to VTB Capital chief Ruben Aganbegyan and head of the Moscow State University Department of Economics.