OREANDA-NEWS. October 11, 2012. Sistema JSFC ("Sistema" or the "Company") (LSE: SSA), the largest diversified public financial corporation in Russia and the CIS, today announces that during the period of September 27 - October 4, 2012 it has purchased 455,451 Sistema Global Depositary Receipts (which accounts for approximately 0.09% of the Company's charter capital) and 2,044,000 Sistema ordinary shares (which accounts for approximately 0.02% of the Company's charter capital). The depositary receipts and ordinary shares were purchased within the framework of the Company's buyback programme, announced on May 31, 2012, reported the press-centre of Sistema.

The Company is not an investment company, and is not and will not be registered as such, under the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940.