OREANDA-NEWS. July 09, 2012. Annual General Meeting of JSC  NK RussNeft shareholders was held to approve the 2011 Annual statement, Annual accounts and Profit and loss statement. Registry to participate in the Meeting was closed May 21.

The shareholders determined the new membership of the Board of Directors of the Company in amount of 14 people. This comprises Mikhail Gutseriev, Anton Abugov, Sergey Bakhir, Aleksandr Biard, Oleg Gordeev, Aleksandr Goncharuk, Sergey Drozdov, Feliks Evtushenkov, Maksim Kalyuzhny, Dmitry Romanov, Ashot Khachaturyants, Mikhail Shishkhanov, Vladimir Scherbak, Mikhail Shamolin.

Leonid Melamed, who had chaired the Board of Directors of JSC  RussNeft for the last two years, resigned from this position because of moving to another employment.

The shareholders of the Company highly appreciated the input of L. Melamed into the development and implementation of the holding development strategy which allowed to stabilize the Company’s performance, improve the operation and financial results and reduce the debt load.

The Meeting also approved the membership of the Audit commission of JSC  NK RussNeft, determined the auditor of the Company for 2012, approved a number of interested-party transactions in the course of business in the future.