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Nickel’s dividend policy was “an essential part
of the shareholders agreement to which Mr Potanin has agreed”, which improved its market capitalisation and was supported by a majority of research analysts. Rusal also slammed Potanin's "capex ambitions" as dealing with "very risky mega projects, which lock Norilsk into being a resource company.”
Ukraine’s president loses public support
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is loos- ing his popularity, according to the latest poll conducted this month by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
A political survivor, populist Yulia Tymoshenko remains the most popular candidate for the nation's president, with 22.8% support among decided voters. She is followed by former de- fence minister Anatoliy Grytsenko (16%), populist Oleh Lyashko (13.2%), pro-Russian opposition leader Yuriy Boyko (10.6%) and Petro Poroshenko (10.5%).
The presidential vote in Ukraine is scheduled for March 2019. Tymoshenko remain the most popu- lar candidate in the opinion polls, which have been conducted in Ukraine over the past two years. At the same time, Poroshenko’s popularity ratings are in free fall.
Specifically, some 8.7% of respondents said they would vote for Tymoshenko if the election was held next Sunday, while 7.6% said they would sup-
In December 2012, a dispute between Rusal and Interros was resolved through the signing of a shareholder agreement between the two parties and with the introduction of an arbiter shareholder, Crispian Investments Limited, controlled by London-based Abramovich. Neither Potanin nor Abramovich are currently on the board of Norilsk Nickel.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's popularity continues to tumble in polls
port Poroshenko, according to January's survey conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Founda- tion named after Ilko Kucheriv jointly with the Kyiv-based Rasumkov sociological service centre.
At the same time, some experts believe that Poroshenko has a good chance of beating Ty- moshenko in a possible second-round runoff due to the fact that Tymoshenko has one of the high- est negative ratings amongst Ukrainian politi- cians (amount of voters who will not vote for the former PM under any circumstances).
Ukraine's western backers and donors will also likely support Poroshenko against Tymoshenko during the second-round runoff, as the later is strongly associated with populism and anti-mar- ket solutions.
"This [KIIS] poll confirms the president’s col- lapse in public support, which is buttressed by the widely held view that the country is headed in the wrong direction," Zenon Zawada at Kyiv- based brokerage Concorde Capital wrote in a