Welcome!

We welcome you on our blog, the main goal of which is to provide you with our personal view on various aspects of our work as INEDs at MMC Norilsk Nickel, as well as discuss developments related to base & precious metal markets. The idea of creating the blog emerged as a result of the feedback we are getting from our meetings with investors and desire to enhance communication, in particular:

1. We would like to establish a platform for direct communication with the market in order to deliver straitforward our personal views and messages

2. We would like to have a mechanism for receipt of feedback from first-hands in the market on a continuing basis

3. Finally, we believe the discussion in this blog will promote the efficiency of our work on the board of Norilsk and will ensure better safeguarding of interests of minority shareholders

We would appreciate reading the following rules of our blog:

1. We will strive to answer all comments related to the subject of a post, however it might take us some time to process information. Similar comments will be binded and answered together.

2. This blog represents our personal views on matters related to MMC Norilsk Nickel, so let's stay on track and not derive from it. Please understand that we won't be reading or answering any off topic comments

3. And last but not the least, a well recognized rule, please, do not write any obscene, abusive, threatening, hateful, racially, ethnically, or otherwise offensive or illegal text, and do not utilize this blog in any illegal manner.

Thank you very much and we hope you will find this blog useful.

Sincerely yours,

Brad Mills & Gerard Holden