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Vimpel Communications Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

Good day everyone and welcome to this conference call to discuss VimpelCom's Second (sic) [Third] Quarter 2007 Earnings Results. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Mr. Peter Schmidt. Please go ahead sir.

Peter Schmidt - Financial Dynamics

: Good morning, and welcome to VimpelCom's conference call to discuss the company's third quarter and nine months 2007 financial and operating results.

Before getting started, I would like to remind everyone that except for historical information, statements made on this conference call may constitute forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties. These statements relate, in part, to one, the company's strategy and development plans in Russia and the CIS; two, market growth and the competitive environment in Russia and the CIS; three, 3G developments and four, projections relating to the company's cash position, dividend payments, and capital expenditures.

GOOD YEAR FOR FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND Ç

IN their financial year ending September 2007, the Fortress Caribbean Growth Fund recorded net assets valued at $227.3 million, which represents a 55 per cent increase from the previous year.

Chairman, Geoffrey Cave, in the Fortress Mutual Growth Fund 2007 Annual Report, stated that the Fund had had a tremendous year, both in terms of growth in assets and investment performance.

Investors return was recorded at 18.2 per cent, and the net asset value at year en d was $4.75 per share, a 73 cents increase from the $4.02 achieved at September 30 2006.

It was stated that a major contributing factor to the Funds growth was that of the performance of its international portfolio.

Special mention was made of the Overseas Asset Management (OAM) portfolio, as the primarily Asia- and European-based investments brought increases of 30 per cent over 2006 figures.

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Big Bucks Behind Forest Blaze, Haze

ASEAN also includes Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Brunei and the Philippines.

The measures include raising awareness about fire prevention, providing alternative livelihoods for slash-and-burn farmers, and promoting responsible farming and peat land management practices.

Experts had however predicted that the plan will not work because both countries have powerful commercial interests to turn Indonesian forests into plantations for oil palm which currently enjoys a historically all-time high of 700 US dollars a tonne.

Firing the forests during the dry season from June to August is the tested and cheapest way to clear land for oil palm.

Once the land is cleared and its biodiversity destroyed, oil palm is planted extensively turning the entire landscape into a monoculture jungle.