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    ARTSAKH HYDRO POWER PLANT RELEASES IPO MEMORANDUM

    ARKA
    March 17, 2009

    YEREVAN, March 17. /ARKA/. Artsakh Hydro Power Plant has released the
    Investment Memorandum of the Initial Public Offering, the company's
    press office reported on Monday.

    The memorandum intends to provide information and clarification to the
    potential investors on the main terms and conditions of the offering.

    On March 10, "Armenbrok" OJSC, the placement agent, announced the
    first initial public offering worth 3.45 billion (over $9.5 million).

    According to the report, 3,285,715 shares are to be placed with AMD
    1,050 offer price per share.

    Artsakh Hydro Power Plant says in the memorandum that it intends to
    address the net proceeds from initial public offering to construction
    of three HPPs on the largest rivers of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic -
    Tartar and Trghi.

    Proposed HPPs are small (with max capacity of 5 MWt) units, equipped
    with modern turbines and generators. The estimated useful life of
    each plant is 40 years.

    The Memorandum also stresses that the company's fixed prices and
    volumes of sales, no local or global crisis effect on its activities,
    5% profit tax rate, achievement of energetic independence, government
    support, favorable dividend policy and high returns in the light of
    low business risks make investors optimistic.

    The Company was established on November 1, 2007, as a 100% state
    owned closed joint stock company.

    General activity20of the Company is production and sale of electro
    energy, which is the only source of its profit. Company produces
    electro energy via Sarsang Hydro Power Plant. Produced energy with
    fixed price is sold to the only operator of NKR in electro energy
    market - "Artsakhenergo" CJSC.

    "In case of success with these offering, the Company intends to
    implement one more offering in 2010 to fund the construction of two
    additional HHPs - Trghi 2 and Trghi 3", the Memorandum says.

    According to initial estimates, the construction of these two HPPs
    will cost AMD 1.724 billion which will be the volume of the new
    offering. Only the draft project currently exists, and the details
    will be adjusted in the future.
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