text: Oleg Deripaska, was elected to the board of directors, as was the aluminum giant's corporate development manager, Maxim Skokov, and first deputy general director, Vladislav Solovyev.
  Vladimir Potanin's Interros got four representatives elected: Andrei Bugrov, managing director; Marianna Zakharova, head of the legal department; Andrei Klishas, vice president; and Boris Bakal, nominated while he was still managing director of Citigroup Venture Capital International, but who is now consultant to Interros International Investments
  Norilsk Nickel itself is represented on the new board by Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, the chief executive; Oleg Pivovarchuk, his first deputy; and Dmitry Kostoyev, head of finance and economics.
  Vasily Titov, first deputy chairman of VTB , was elected, as were independent directors Brad Mills and Gerard Holden.
  Alexander Voloshin, chairman of the old board, was not elected to the new board. Voloshin was nominated by Rusal, with the backing of Vnesheconombank (VEB), which holds Rusal's stake in Norilsk as security for a loan.
  In total, Rusal nominated 11 candidates for the board of 13 directors, Interros nominated seven and Kola Mining and Metals Company which, with other Norilsk Nickel subsidiaries, has 8.5% of the company's shares on its books, nominated five.
  
  Home > Newsroom > Top Stories > Govt commissions recommends 15% duty on bulk wine imports, 20% on bottled wine
  MOSCOW. March 19 (Interfax) - Russia's Sub-Commission for Customs and Tariff Regulations and Protective Measures for Foreign Trade made a recommendation on Thursday to the Customs Union to set duties on bulk import of wine and bottled wine imports at 15% and 20%, respectively.
  The Russian government said in a statement that imports for bulk wine over 227 liters would have a customs duty of 15%, other wines, including bottled wine, would receive a 20% duty. The duty for the import of freshly pressed grape juice could be set at 15%.
  This decision was made for the purposes of preventing the unreliable declaration of alcoholic goods and materials for their production imported into Russia, the government said in a statement.
  In October 2009, the commission made a recommendation for setting 15% duties on the import of all types of wine and fresh grape juice. At that moment, the duty on both bottled and bulk wine imports came to 20% while the duty for fresh grape juice stands at 5%.
  
  Home > Newsroom > Top Stories > CORRECTED: Gazprombank could offer up to $1 bln in Eurobonds in Q2 2010
  MOSCOW. Dec 3 (Interfax) - Gazprombank could offer up to $1 billion in Eurobonds in the second quarter of 2010, Alexander Sobol, the bank's deputy chairman, told reporters.
  "There'd be no point offering less than $500 million, and it would be costly to offer more than $1 billion, so were looking at somewhere in between," he said.
  
  Home > Newsroom > Top Stories > Petropavlovsk reaches agreement with Xuan Yuan to develop K&amp;S iron ore field
  MOSCOW. Oct 13 (Interfax) - Petropavlovsk plc, formed from this year's merger between Peter Hambro Mining plc mineral resources developer Aricom plc, has signed a cooperation agreement with China's Xuan Yuan Industrial Development Co. Ltd (XY-Group) which foresees the two parties jointly developing the Kimkan & Sutara (KS) iron ore project in Russia's Far East, Petropavlovsk said in a press release.