OREANDA-NEWS. Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of PJSC ALROSA approved the Company’s annual report and financial statements and made a number of decisions on profit distribution for 2015.

They voted to pay out the 2015 year-end dividend of RUB 15.392 billion, or RUB 2.09, per ordinary share with a par value of 50 kopecks.

The record date for the shareholders with dividend rights is July 19, 2016.

The shareholders elected the following members to the Supervisory Board.

The chairman of the Supervisory Board and members of the committees will be elected at the next meeting of the Supervisory Board.

ZAO PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit was approved as the Company’s RAS and IFRS auditor for 2016.

The shareholders elected the Auditing Committee, approved the Corporate Governance Code of PJSC ALROSA, and voted to join the Responsible Jewelry Council.

ALROSA is the leader of the world diamond mining industry, a Russian partially state-owned diamond mining company. ALROSA Group enterprises operate in nine countries, and across ten regions of Russia.

The almost 60-year history of our company can be divided into several important periods.

The first covers the years of development, and the establishment of the industry and its structure.

Yakutalmaz Trust was created in 1957 in the tent village of Mirny, next to the Mir kimberlite pipe. The same year, it produced the first industrial diamonds. Two years later, it began to supply them abroad under a contract agreement with De Beers Corporation.