Moscow, April 19, 2005. CenterTelecom won Radiomania-2005 National Award in radio broadcasting in the Accomplishments in Broadcasting Expansion nomination.

The prestigious contest organized by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation and MediaSoyuz is being conducted for the fourth time already. Every year hundreds of participants, including not just journalists or the anchors of the leading broadcasting programs, but the sound engineers as well compete for the National Award.

At the solemn ceremony that was held in Rossiya concert hall, CenterTelecom was represented by the First Deputy Director - the Technical Director of the company's Moscow branch Andrei Galaev. At the award ceremony he thanked the rigorous jury for having highly assessed the Company's work and said he was confident that the award will take a worthy place among other CenterTelecom awards.

For more information please contact:
Information Policy Department Director
Yana Lavrentyeva
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pr@centertelecom.ru

CenterTelecom is a leading fixed telecommunications company providing a wide range of telecom services in the Central Federal District, where over 20% of the population of Russia resides. CenterTelecom offers the full range of telecommunication services, including fixed telephony, Internet, IP-telephony, data transmission, cable TV, wired and VHF broadcasting. The company actively develops modern multiservice and SDH networks as well as new WLL systems. The Company trades on RTS (ESMO, ESMOP), Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (CTEL, CTELP) and has ADR Level 1 common stock program (CRMUY).