At the culmination of what has been another remarkable period for our business, Rusneftegaz is now able to publish a full provisional calendar for the next twelve months, the major highlight being our annual general meeting, scheduled to be held in early April. This particular event has occurred in the first half of each year since our company was founded and serves as not only a showcase for our ongoing success, but also as a profound opportunity for our leadership to discuss and shape the future of our organization. In recent times, this has entailed our board of directors approving new investment plans and research strategies for the remainder of this decade, albeit no such affairs are set to be included on the agenda at the forthcoming conference. Instead, our key stakeholders and managers may collectively review our consolidated financial statements and corresponding fiscal data for 2025, all of which are set to be circulated to all relevant parties prior to the gathering. While such documents will not be made available to a broader public audience, our firm shall continue to promulgate comprehensive production reports within four weeks of the end of each quarter, with the expected dates for each of these announcements disclosed accordingly on our official website. However, it should be noted that all such information is preliminary and is therefore subject to change, although our management believes that any amendments are unforeseeable and thus improbable at this present time.

Despite the fact that our leadership continues to do its utmost to ensure that all those affiliated with our organization remain informed with regard to our ongoing affairs, this becomes increasingly challenging at certain times of the year when our manpower is reduced. This is particularly acute during the Christmas celebrations, transpiring between 25 December and 9 January, when a significant percentage of our administrative workforce goes on vacation for an extended timeframe. Consequently, we advise anyone seeking to contact Rusneftegaz to do so as soon as it is possible to do so in order to receive a response before our capacity to respond to such inquiries is limited by these aforementioned constraints. Although all our communication channels will be monitored throughout the festive period, our staff will not prioritize handling new incoming messages, but will principally focus their efforts on directing relevant correspondences to the appropriate office. As a result, we cannot wholly guarantee an immediate reply, especially if one of our departments has been heavily affected by this reduction in personnel. All our production and trading operations will continue as normal for the duration of the holiday season, and thus we shall endeavor to facilitate all critical or urgent memos for our teams as is customary. All unanswered missives directed to us, our subsidiaries or partners on said days will all be acknowledged within one working day of our full operational return. Due to the time-sensitive nature of this announcement, all queries pertaining to this matter must be submitted via email or phone without delay. We politely request your full cooperation and understanding in relation to this pressing business.