The meeting was chaired by A. Bougrov, Vice Chair of the Corporate Relations Committee and the Senior Vice President of MMC Norilsk Nickel. He emphasized the relevance of the new Russian Code of Corporate Governance that had been prepared by the Central Bank of Russia and adopted in 2014.

According to Rosa Khutor general Director Sergey Bachin, «in 2015 winter season, Rosa Khutor hosted 600 thousand tourists and 750 thousand in summer season, this gives us a total of 1.35 mln guests in 2015. In 2016 winter season, the number of visitors reached 800 thousand, it’s a 30% increase compared to the previous winter season. We expect that in 2016 the total number of tourists will reach 1.5 mln».

Members of the Supervisory Council are appointed for a five-year term. The Council is responsible for the design and implementation of the university’s development strategy, and general oversight over its activities.

As a partner of the Russian Olympic Committee and the Russian Olympic team, Norilsk Nickel will contribute to the development of Olympic educational programs, such as training of homegrown sports professionals under the auspices of Russian International Olympic University, as well as preparing of Russian athletes for the XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (August 5-21, 2016) and for the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang (South Korea).

Norilsk's new dividend policy will see payments of 60 percent of annual EBITDA if its net debt to EBITDA ratio is less than 1.8 and payment of 30 percent of EBITDA if its net debt to EBITDA ratio is more than 2.2.