Gazprom’s Board of Directors’ ordinary meeting to be held on February 4 

Gazprom’s Board of Directors’ ordinary meeting will be held on February 4, 2004, at 3 PM Moscow time. The meeting agenda is as follows:

• preparation for Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders’ Meeting;
• consideration of proposals on candidate nominations for the Company’s Board of Directors and Revision Commission as well as on the agenda of the annual General Shareholders’ Meeting;
• pricing policy of the gas production and transportation subsidiaries;
• Gazprom’s export strategy under the European gas market liberalization;
• the progress in implementing the Concept for liberalization of Gazprom’s building activities.

Information Directorate, OAO Gazprom