VimpelCom to Release First Quarter 2004 Financial and Operating Results On Thursday, May 27, 2004 MOSCOW and NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications"
("VimpelCom" or the "Company") announced today that it will webcast its conference call on its first
quarter 2004 financial results on Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 6:30 p.m. Moscow time (10:30 a.m. EDT). The conference call
will be hosted by Alexander Izosimov, Chief Executive Officer. He will be joined by Elena Shmatova, Chief Financial
Officer, Nikolai Pryanishnikov, First Vice President - Commercial Director, and Valery Goldin, Vice President of
International and Investor Relations. The press release announcing the Company's first quarter 2004 financial
results will be available on the Company's web site, located at http://www.vimpelcom.com/, prior to the conference
call.
The Company's management will discuss its first quarter 2004 results during a conference call and slide
presentation. The call and slide presentation may be accessed via webcast at the following URL address
http://www.vimpelcom.com/. For those who will be unable to listen to the live slide presentation webcast, it will be
archived on the Company's web site until June 28, 2004.
VimpelCom is a leading provider of telecommunications services in Russia, operating under the "Bee Line
GSM" brand. The VimpelCom Group's license portfolio covers approximately 92% of Russia's population (134
million people), including the City of Moscow, the Moscow Region and the City of St. Petersburg. VimpelCom was the first
Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"). VimpelCom's ADSs are listed
on the NYSE under the symbol "VIP". VimpelCom
CONTACT: Valery Goldin of VimpelCom (Moscow), +7-095-974-5888, vgoldin@vimpelcom.com; or Christopher Mittendorf of
Edelman Financial Worldwide, +1-212-704-8134, christopher.mittendorf@edelman.com, for VimpelCom
Web site: http://www.vimpelcom.com/
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