Rostelecom, Russia’s national long-distance telecommunications operator, today announced the Board of Director’s decision to reappoint Dmitry Yerokhin as General Director of the Company for the period till November 4, 2007.

The appointment was made by the Board according to the recommendation of its Nominations and Remuneration Committee and because of the formal termination of Mr. Yerokhin’s employment agreement of 2003. 

Dmitry Yerokhin was appointed General Director of Rostelecom by the Board of Directors on November 3, 2003. Prior to that he held the position of First Deputy General Director since October 2001. After graduating, Dmitry Yerokhin worked as an engineer in the Regional Control Center of long-distance and international telecommunications of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR in Makhachkala. In 1997 he became the head of Rostelecom’s Rostov-on-Don branch. Dmitry Yerokhin was born on March 23, 1950 in Makhachkala. He holds a degree in Radio Design Engineering from Dagestan Polytechnic Institute (1977), graduated with high honors.