Press release 22 June 2012

One in Ten Citi Employees in , Ukraine and Kazakhstan Become Volunteers

Approximately 400 people in 12 cities of Russia, in Ukraine and Kazakhstan took part in Citi’s Global Community Day

Moscow – Approximately 400 Citi employees in Russia and the CIS together with friends and family members joined 60 thousand colleagues in 95 countries worldwide to take part in Citi’s Global Community Day. Volunteers in Russia organized projects to help children, people with disabilities and the elderly. The day’s activities also include efforts to care for homeless animals and environmental clean-up projects.

Citi’s volunteers both initiated their own projects and joined the efforts of public organizations, in total participating in 23 social projects in the 12 cities of Russia where the bank has a presence. Long-time volunteers who regularly engage in such projects assisted the novices in their efforts to help those in need.

Most of the projects were in some way or another connected with providing assistance to children: organizing festivities at summer camps, cleaning up the territories of children’s institutions as well as arranging excursions for children. In following with tradition, volunteers also organized projects to improve the facilities of nursing homes for the elderly, which concluded with tea parties with the residents.

Citi Country Officer for Russia and Citi Division Head for Central and Eastern Europe Zdenek Turek held a special master class in St. Petersburg. He shared his knowledge and experience with the graduates of the Citi-sponsored course “Project Management for Social Entrepreneurs” at the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg State University. Following the master class, Zdenek Turek presented the graduates with diplomas and congratulated them on completion of this course, which provides a specialization that is not offered elsewhere in Russia. He also expressed his hope that the popularity of this education program would continue to grow: “Practical skills in the creation and successful realization of business projects addressing acute social problems will help us improve the quality of life of disadvantaged people and subsequently of society as a whole. This is the aim of all our social initiatives, the largest of which is our annual Global Community Day. I am grateful to all our employees who participate in volunteer events both on this day and throughout the entire year.”

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ZAO was one of the first banks with foreign capital to enter the Russian market back in 1992. Today, Citibank is one of the country’s largest banks, which offers corporate and private clients a wide range of products and services. To date, the bank has over 4,000 employees, and its retail network includes over 550 ATMs, branches and representative offices in major cities of Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. For more information on Citibank Russia please visit www.citibank.ru.

Media contacts Citi Russia Olga Migacheva +7 (495) 643 1569 [email protected]