PJSC ALROSA’s announced yesterday that the Company’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders approved its annual report and financial statements and voted to pay out RUB 15.392 billion as the 2015 year-end dividend. This amounts to RUB 2.09 per ordinary share with a par value of 50 kopecks.

At the meeting, the  following were elected to the Company’s  Supervisory Board: Petr Vyacheslavovich Alekseev; Sergey Vladimirovich Barsukov; Yegor Afanasyevich Borisov;  Alexander Sergeevich Galushka; Ms. Maria Vladimirovna Gordon; Ms. Evgenia Vassilievna Grigorieva;  Oleg Viktorovich Grinko; Ms. Galina Innokentievna Danchikova; Andrey Vyacheslavovich  Zharkov; Ms. Valentina Ivanovna Lemesheva; Vasily Timofeevich Lukin;   Anton Germanovich Siluanov; Pavel Vasilievich Ulyanov; Oleg Romanovich Fedorov; Alexey Olegovich Chekunkov.

The Company announced that ZAO PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit was approved as the Company’s RAS and IFRS auditor for 2016; and that the shareholders elected the Auditing Committee, approved the Corporate Governance Code of PJSC ALROSA, and voted to join the Responsible Jewelry Council.

The chairman of the Supervisory Board and members of the committees will be elected at the next meeting of the Supervisory Board.

 Meanwhile, a day earlier, PJSC ALROSA had announced that it would be establishing “a departmental security service to protect the Company’s production facilities”. So far, this was the responsibility of the state.

 “ALROSA is on the list of strategic enterprises under the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, and the new version of the Law provides for the Company’s right to establish a departmental security service (by analogy with such companies as Rosneft, Transneft, Gazprom, and others),” the Company explained. “The draft law was approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (General Administration for Private Security) and Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (as the Company’s supervisory authority).”

Rinat Gizatulin, ALROSA Vice President commented: “Adoption of amendments will allow increasing safety of the Company’s production facilities located in remote and hard-to-reach regions of our country, and the state will be able to save up to RUB 200 million a year.”