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April 16, 2010

OJSC VimpelCom welcomes the results of the U.S. Exchange Offer

Moscow and New York (April 16, 2010) – Open Joint Stock Company “Vimpel-Communications” (“OJSC VimpelCom” or the “Company”) (NYSE: VIP) welcomes the results of the U.S. Offer for all shares held by U.S. persons and all American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") of the Company that were announced by VimpelCom Ltd. today.

As announced by VimpelCom Ltd. today, the U.S. Offer expired yesterday at 5:00 pm, New York City time. A total of 308,309,375 ADSs (representing 15,415,468 shares) were validly tendered and not withdrawn in the U.S. Offer. It is expected that the major shareholders of OJSC VimpelCom, Telenor ASA and Altimo Holdings & Investments Ltd., will also cause their shares to be tendered in the Russian Offer prior to its close at 11:59 pm, Moscow time, on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, bringing the aggregate combined tenders in the U.S. Offer and the Russian Offer to 56,144,721 shares, representing 97.29% of OJSC VimpelCom's outstanding shares.

Commenting on today’s announcement, Boris Nemsic, Chief Executive Officer of OJSC VimpelCom, said:
“We are very pleased with such a positive response to the U.S. Offer. The overwhelming market support for the transaction shows investors’ backing for us to continue to successfully develop our business within the new structure”.

 

 

 

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