Broker Rendering Shares Placement Services

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Announcement on the Broker rendering shares placement services

Full and abbreviated corporate names of the Broker, and his location: INVESTMENT COMPANY EUROFINANSY OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY (JSC IC EUROFINANSY), 119049, Moscow, Shabolovka st., 10, block 2 (hereinafter referred to as Broker).

Broker's license number, date of issuance, validity period, and issuing authority: unlimited licenseNo. 077-06234-100000, issued on 09.09.2003 by the Federal Commission for Securities of Russia.

Securities in respect of which the Broker renders services to the Securities' Issuer: ordinary personal uncertified shares, state registration number of additional securities issue is 1-01-55038-Е-041D dated 03.12.2012 (further on referred to as securities, shares).

The main functions of the Broker for rendering shares placement services to the Issuer: receipt and registration of Offers and sending notices of acceptance on behalf of the Issuer to the persons selected by the Issuer at its sole discretion out of all the persons which have submitted Offers during open subscription.

Additional information on the Broker's functions:

The Broker shall not be obliged to purchase securities that have not been subscribed for within a certain period. 

The Broker shall bear no responsibility relating to maintaining prices for securities being offered at a certain level during a certain period after the completion of the offering (stabilization), including responsibilities associated with providing market making services. The Broker shall not have the right to purchase an additional number of securities of the Issuer out of allotted (issued) securities of the Issuer of the same class and type as the securities offered, which may be exercised or not depending on the outcome of the securities issue.

For the period of exercising by shareholders their pre-emptive rights for acquisition of additional shares the Broker does not render services on receiving applications from persons having pre-emptive rights for acquisition of additional shares.

DISCLAIMER

This announcement does not contain or constitute an offer of, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, securities to any person in the United States, Australia, Canada or Japan or in any jurisdiction to whom or in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. The securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or another exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Subject to certain exceptions, the securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in Australia, Canada or Japan or to, or for the account or benefit of, any national, resident or citizen of Australia, Canada or Japan. The offer and sale of the securities referred to herein has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or under the applicable securities laws of Australia, Canada or Japan. There will be no public offer of the securities in the United States.

This announcement does not contain or constitute an invitation, inducement or solicitation to invest. This announcement is directed only at and is for distribution only to persons who (i) are outside the United Kingdom, (ii) are "investment professionals" falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended) (the "Order"), (iii) are persons falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) ("high net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.") of the Order or (iv) are other persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) in connection with the issue or sale of any shares may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons in (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) together being referred to as "Relevant Persons"). This announcement is directed only at Relevant Persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not Relevant Persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this announcement relates is available only to Relevant Persons and will be engaged in only with Relevant Persons.

In the European Economic Area ("EEA"), This announcement is only directed at persons who are "qualified investors" within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Directive (Directive 2003/71/EC) ("Qualified Investors"). This announcement must not be acted upon in any member state of the EEA by persons who are not Qualified Investors.

The information in this press release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of RusHydro. One can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "will," "could," "may" or "might," the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. We wish to caution you that these statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially from these statements.

We do not intend to update these statements to reflect events and circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Many factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statements, including, among others, general economic conditions, our competitive environment, risks associated with operating in Russia and rapid technological and market changes in our industries, as well as many other risks specifically related to RusHydro and its operations.