The Board of Directors of Norilsk Nickel

At the end of last week a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of MMC «Norilsk Nickel». At this event, corporate management to make decisions on a number of important issues in the management of the company and its dividend policy and development strategy for the near future. «Our company continues to steadily on the path of realization of the key points of the shareholders' agreement, based on a common vision of progress vector business organization» — said of the event the head of the nickel corporation — Vladimir Potanin. «It is important that long-term plans for the distribution of assets of the company will be built in harmony with the overall strategy of its development, which will allow» Norilsk Nickel «to work stably even at the most unexpected scenarios for non-ferrous metals market," — said the head of MMC.

In particular, one of the main issues discussed in the CD nickel corporation was the situation with the payment of shares of profits to holders of the securities of the company. The meeting pre-established amount of the dividend payment for the past year in the amount of 400.83 Russian rubles per common share «Norilsk Nickel», which is 104.5% more than the same charges on the results of the company in 2011 (when paid to shareholders of MMC 196 RR per share).

Another question of the distribution of finance «Norilsk Nickel», raised by the Board of Directors of the corporation — the remuneration and compensation paid to members of the BoD of the enterprise. The meeting recommended amounts of these contributions, for which the leadership of the corporation will have to vote at the annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 6, 2013.

In addition to the above-mentioned issues, the new composition of the Board was approved by the MMC Norilsk Board of Directors. It includes Vladimir Potanin (chief executive officer), Alexander Ryumin (head of the Polar Division of the company), Sergei Selyandin (Director of MMC «Kola»), Nina Plastinina (Head of Internal Control) and deputy general director of «Norilsk Nickel» — E. Yakovlev, S. Batekhin, Aznauryan O., E. Bezdenezhnykh, Zelkova L., Malyshev, VP Fedorov and Andrei Bugrov.