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VimpelCom / Annual Report 2007
The Legacy of VimpelCom Founders’ Pioneering Spirit
VimpelCom’s Founder and Honorary President Dr. Dmitri B.
Zimin and Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus Augie K. Fabela
II have inspired the Company’s transparency, strong corporate
governance, quality, innovation and a pioneering spirit – values
and characteristics that have made VimpelCom unique in Russia
and the CIS and a leader in the industry. They led VimpelCom
from its inception in 1992, to its history-making step of becoming
the first Russian company to be listed on the New York Stock
Exchange in 1996. Messrs. Zimin and Fabela laid the foundation
that has made VimpelCom one of the largest companies in Russia,
CIS, Central and Eastern Europe and one of the fastest growing
telecommunications companies in the world, now ranking in the
Forbes 2000 Global Index.
Today, as VimpelCom has passed its 10th year as a NYSE listed
company, looking back at its extraordinary achievements, one
cannot but express deep gratitude and respect to its courageous and
visionary founders. They set the principles, established the rules
and defined the vision that their successors should take and carry
into the future.