The shareholders of Uralsvyazinform (the Urals’ major telecommunications provider) elected their new Board of Directors in the course of the annual general meeting in Perm. According to Uralsvyazinform’s report, only eleven out of twenty-four proposed BOD members were actually voted for. These were: Evgeniy Yurchenko, Alla Grigorieva, Eduard Lebedev, Mikhail Batmanov, Olga Koroleva, Elena Umnova, Mikhail Leschenko, Alexander Provorotov, Sergey Kerber, Dmitriy Tushnov, and Anatoly Ufimkin.