Moscow, 17 March 2006. RAO "UES of Russia" hereby denies the mass media reports of yesterday's street lighting outage on Moscow's embankments. The media must have received the information from an unreliable source and did not verify it with officials of RAO "UES of Russia" and the Moscow energy companies. Yesterday, the dispatching staff of the Moscow Energy System and the city's utilities did not register any outages in Moscow.

RAO "UES of Russia" calls on the mass media refrain from disseminating information received from unofficial sources.