OREANDA-NEWS. Uralkali (LSE: URKA; the Company), one of the world's largest potash producers, announces that, following a meeting held on 26 March 2014, its Board of Directors made the following decisions:

to elect independent director Sergey Chemezov as Chairman and Sir Robert Margetts and Dmitry Mazepin as Deputy Chairmen of the Board to form the Board Committees to appoint independent directors as the heads of the Committees (for more details on the Board Committees please visit the Company's website http://www.uralkali.com/about/corporate_governance/board_committees/) to approve the following composition of the Management Board:

Dmitry Osipov

Viktor Belyakov

Nadezhda Kiryanova

Yevgeny Kotlyar

Oleg Petrov

Elena Samsonova

Stanislav Seleznev

Boris Serebrennikov

Marina Shvetsova

Sergey Chemezov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Uralkali commented:

“I highly value the trust shown in me by the Company's shareholders. In co-operation with the management, we will work efficiently in the interests of all shareholders while observing corporate governance best practices.“