Tele2 Russia Holding AB (BB+ by Fitch) announces the pricing of its rouble bond issue

Stockholm - Tele2 AB (Tele2), (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: TEL2 A and TEL2 B) today
announced that OJSC Saint-Petersburg Telecom (Issuer), a subsidiary of Tele2
Russia Holding AB has closed the books and announced the pricing of a 6 billion
rouble bond issue.

OJSC Saint-Petersburg Telecom, a subsidiary of Tele2 Russia Holding AB, has
closed the books and announced the pricing of a 6 billion rouble bond issue. The
bonds have a final maturity of 10-years and a put option providing for an
effective tenor of 3 years. The books were priced at a coupon rate for the 3-
year period set at 9.10 percent per annum. The Issuer's liabilities under the
offering will be covered by irrevocable undertakings from Tele2 Russia Holding
AB and Tele2 Financial Services AB.

Lead-Arrangers and Book-runners of the offering are Raiffeisen Bank and VTB
Capital.

Ondra Partners have acted as financial advisors to Tele2 AB.

Contacts

Lars Torstensson, Investor Inquiries, Telephone: +46 702 73 48 79
Pernilla Oldmark, Press Inquiries, Telephone: +46 704 26 45 45


TELE2 IS ONE OF EUROPE'S LEADING TELECOM OPERATORS, ALWAYS PROVIDING THE BEST
DEAL. We have 34 million customers in 11 countries. Tele2 offers mobile
services, fixed broadband and telephony, data network services, cable TV and
content services. Ever since Jan Stenbeck founded the company in 1993, it has
been a tough challenger to the former government monopolies and other
established providers. Tele2 has been listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm since
1996. In 2011, we had net sales of SEK 41 billion and reported an operating
profit (EBITDA) of SEK 10.9 billion

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