OREANDA-NEWS. On February 03, 2009 at its latest meeting the Board of Directors of MMC Norilsk Nickel (hereinafter, Norilsk Nickel or the Company) adopted the following resolutions, reported the press-centre of Norilsk Nickel.

The Board of Directors approved the list of nominees proposed by shareholders owning more than 2% of the Company’s shares for election to the Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting of shareholders.

The list of nominees:
German Aliev, Deputy General Director, HC Interros;

Dmitry  Afanasiev, Legal Counsel, Legal Office "Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev  and partners";

Anatoly Ballo, Member of the Management Board – Deputy Chairman of the State Corporation  Bank of Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vneshekonombank");

Sergey Bateknin, Deputy General Director, HC  Interros;

Andrey Bougrov, Managing Director, HC Interros;

Alexander Bulygin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, EN+;

Alexander  Voloshin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, MMC Norilsk Nickel;

Artem Volynets, Director for Strategy and Corporate Development, UC RUSAL;

Vadim Geraskin, Director for Natural Monopolies Relations, UC RUSAL;

Maxim Goldman, Deputy Investment Director of Renova Management AG Branch;

Andrey Klishas, Vice-President, HC Interros;

Igor Komarov, Advisor to the General Director of the State Corporation Rostekhnologii;

Valery Lukyanenko, Member of the Management Board, Head of the First  Corporate Block of VTB Bank;

Bradford  Mills, General Director of Lonmin Plc. (2004-2008);

Farhad Moshiri, Chairman of the Board of Directors of HC Metalloinvest;

Alexander Polevoy, Deputy General Director for Finance, HC Interros;

Dmitry Razumov, General Director of Onexim Group;

Maxim Sokov, Director for Investments Management, UC RUSAL;

Vladislav Solovyov, General Director, EN+;

Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, General Director – Chairman of the Management Board, MMC Norilsk Nickel;

Vasily Titov, Deputy Pesident – Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank;

Anton Chorny, Deputy General Director for investments, HC Interros;

Gerard Holden, advisor, Rockbury Services Inc (Private).

Moreover, four Committees of the Board of Directors were organized: Audit Committee; Committee for Corporate Governance, HR and Remuneration; Strategy Committee; and Budget Committee.

These Committees comprise the following members:

Audit Committee: Gerard Holden as Chairman, Andrey Bougrov, Maxim Sokov, Farhad Moshiri;

Committee for Corporate Governance, HR and Remuneration: Andrey Klishas as Chairman, Gerard Holden, Maxim Sokov;

Strategy Committee: Sergey Batekhin as Chairman, Bradford Mills, Farhad Moshiri, Vladislav Solovyov;

Budget Committee: Vladislav Solovyov as Chairman, Alexander Polevoy, Farhad Moshiri.

Furthermore, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Stanislav Svetlitsky, attended the meeting and reported on the situation in the country’s energy sector focusing on generating assets owned by the Company.

A working group was established to study the existing opportunities for alienation of these assets; it will comprise representatives of MMC Norilsk Nickel’s management and federal ministries and agencies concerned.