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R.O.S.T. Registrar (hereinafter R.O.S.T.) is a major Russian registrar and a professional participant of the securities market. The Company’s head office is located in Moscow. R.O.S.T’s regional network consists of 35 regional branches, which operate in 8 federal districts of the Russian Federation. The regional network also includes over 200 transfer agents operating in dozens of the country’s major industrial centers.

History
The history of R.O.S.T. Registrar dates back to May 2011, when stockholders of PANORAMA Registration Company (OJSC) (founded in 1996) and Stock Registration Company (CJSC) (founded in 1933) made a decision to merge in order to create a new Russian registrar. The two Russian registrars’ merger project is still one of the major mergers of infrastructural institutions in Russian practice. In 2010, the new company became a leader in the Russian market of registrar services. Throughout its entire history, the Company has made eleven mergers and takeovers of other registrars, the largest of such transactions being the takeover of REGISTRAR A-PLUS (CJSC). In February 2011, stockholders of REGISTRAR A-PLUS (CJSC) and R.O.S.T. Registrar (OJSC) made a decision to carry out a re-organization in the format of a merger of REGISTRAR A-PLUS (CJSC) with R.O.S.T. Registrar (OJSC). As of the time of the merger decision, REGISTRAR A-PLUS was a major regional registrar, and was maintaining approximately 800 stockholder registers. The merger of the two leading registrars was one of the major mergers in the entire history of the Russian securities market. As a result of the reorganization, the number of R.O.S.T. Registrar’s customers increased to over 3,300, and its regional network expanded to 36 regional branches.

Management
Oleg M. Zhiznenko has been the Company’s CEO since the moment of its launching. The Board of Directors consists of representatives of owners and management, and includes an independent Director as well. General Director of R.O.S.T. Registrar is a member of the Board of Directors for the Professional Association of Registrars, Transfer Agents, and Depositories (PARTAD) – a Self-Regulated Organization (SRO), and a member of the Expert Board for the Federal Financial Markets Service.

Activities
R.O.S.T. Registrar provides services to issuers and registered entities in the area of record-keeping, storage, re-registration, and exercising of rights guaranteed by securities. Among the services of R.O.S.T. Registrar are maintenance of registers, counting board functions, making arrangements for distribution of funds (dividends), distribution of the issuer’s materials to shareholders, and back-office functions. The R.O.S.T. Group includes R.O.S.T. Corporate Projects CJSC, which specializes in corporate consulting services and depository services. Ukrainian subsidiaries of R.O.S.T. Registrar provide comprehensive services to shareholders and joint-stock companies in the Ukrainian stock market.

In 2012, R.O.S.T. Registrar (OJSC) has ranked 1st in quality of registrar services (according to IR Agency INTERFAX BUSINESS SERVICE).