Billionaire Vladimir Potanin, left, with new Norilsk Nickel CEO Vladimir Strzhalkovsky after a panel meeting on Friday.
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MOSCOW Norilsk Nickel's board of owners elected Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, a former KGB officer as well as longtime friend of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's, as chief executive on Feb 5th.
The move was described as attempt by the government to stay a lengthy dispute between the corporation's shareholders. Strzhalkovsky, who until recently advancing the Federal Tourism Agency, supplanted Sergei Batekhin, who occupied the write-up for less than a month and became deputy ceo of the management board within the shakeup.
"The company's task [under Strzhalkovsky] is to represent a consolidation leader in the profession," Vladimir Potanin, Norilsk's chairman and a 30 percent shareholder, said at a media conference after the meeting.
Usa Company RusAl a 25 percent investors in Norilsk with three staff on its nine member board, including billionaires Oleg Deripaska and Mikhail Prokhorov had questioned Strzhalkovsky's candidacy, saying is in de provincie Shanxi Guanquelou grondgebied van Yongji City 17 he didn't have enough managerial and metals market experience, and voted in opposition to him.
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"The merging effort will require cooperation with the state," Potanin said. "We can even need the state's help in international expansion and improving interaction between shareholders."
Deripaska, who controls RusAl through his Primary Element holding company, explained to reporters Thursday that the miner has been "not ready to merge with Norilsk currently." He also ruled out a 3 way merger with flat iron ore giant Metalloinvest, a move that had been make an effort to supported by Potanin.
Potanin said Friday that they would consider any partners for the merger and was also ready to cut his position in Norilsk to achieve such a package. "We are not considering RusAl as a singular partner," Potanin said following being asked to comment on Deripaska's assertion.
Strzhalkovsky told reporters after his / her election that he saw his or her primary task as enhancing the company's profit, but young drivers . gave a nod as to what investors consider his main purpose at the Norilsk. "Any large company must be interested in good relations using the government," he said.
Shareholders, however, were unenthusiastic sade Waldron Flickorna inte gillar att leda bollen about the go. "A private company should be monitored by a private businessman," said Alexander Branis, chief executive of Wealth Capital Management, which copes with $5 billion in assets in the former Soviet Union.
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