President of MMC Norilsk Nickel, received Lawyer of the Year award

MMC Norilsk Nickel, JSC informed that the Company’s President Mr. Andrey Klishas won the highest legal award of the Russian Federation Lawyer of the Year – 2011.

Legal Education and Upbringing Award went to Mr. Klishas and Sergey Shakhray, the Head of Executive Office of Russian Audit Chamber, for the joint authorship of the Russian Federation Constitutional Law textbook. The award giving ceremony will be held on the Lawyer’s Day professional holiday, December 3.

The award was established with the Presidential Decree of October 8, 2009, and is annually presented by All-Russian Public Organization Association of Lawyers of Russia. In 2009, the Presidium of the Association took a decision to give the award for Contribution to Legal Science to Sergey Alekseev, the world’s famous legal scholar. The winners of Lawyer of the Year-2010 were Alexander Makovsky, the outstanding civil lawyer and co-author of current Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Yevgeny Smolentsev, last Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR, and Nikolay Kropachev, provost of Saint-Petersburg State University. This year there were five nominations.

“This is a true honor to receive such a high award. I believe my duty is to continue contributing to the law development in our country”, said Mr. Klishas. Andrey Klishas is the author of over 35 scholarly works related to constitutional and municipal law in the Russian Federation and abroad. Mr. Klishas is chairman of the Council of the Contemporary History Foundation, and member of the Expert Board of the Russian Ministry of Interior, the Board of Trustees of Association of Lawyers of Russia, and National Council for Corporate Governance. Furthermore, Mr. Klishas is the professor and head of Constitutional and Municipal Law School of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, professor of Constitutional and Municipal Law School of Moscow University of Russian Ministry of Interior, and chief researcher in the Institute of Social Research of Russian Academy of Sciences.

ABOUT MMC NORILSK NICKEL:

MMC Norilsk Nickel is the largest diversified mining and metals company in Russia, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium and one of the world's largest producers of platinum, rhodium, copper and cobalt. In addition to this, MMC Norilsk Nickel produces a large number of other by-products, including gold, silver, tellurium, selenium, iridium and ruthenium.

The key production units of the Company’s group in Russia are at the Polar and Kola Peninsulas. MMC Norilsk Nickel international assets include operations in Finland, Australia, Botswana and South Africa.