National operator Rostelecom has won five state contracts worth a total of $220,000 for providing Internet access services and organization of VPN-network in the Republic of Buryatia, CNews reports.

Specifically, Rostelecom has won an open tender and got the contract with Buryatia government for organization and servicing the data transferring channel, opening access to Internet, in 2012.

Under the state contract, Rostelecom will lay the high-speed connection line to the building of the government of the Republic of Buryatia. Rostelecom will ensure secure connection, unlimited traffic, DNS zones at the company’s servers, 24/7 customer service, and other modern telecommunication services.

In addition, the company has received state contracts for providing telecommunication services for connecting local area networks of district administrations in the region and government agencies in Ulan-Ude.

The telecom will connect 25 remote municipal territories all over the region and 13 various agencies with the Buryatia government building.

Rostelecom is Russia’s national telecommunications operator and since April 2011 also includes the regional incumbent telecommunications operators (CentreTelecom, SibirTelecom, Dalsvyaz, Uralsvyazinform, VolgaTelecom, North-West Telecom and Southern Telecommunications Company) and Dagsvyazinform. Rostelecom has the largest domestic backbone network (approximately 500 thousand km) and last mile connections to approximately 35 million households in Russia. The Company holds licenses to provide a wide range of telecommunications services across all regions of the Russian Federation. Today over 100 million Russian residents use the company’s services.