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Independent Director


An independent director is a person who has left the board of directors (supervisory board) of a public company in accordance with the criteria established by the charter of the public company, an internal document of the public company regulating the activities of the board of directors (supervisory board) of the public company, and (or) the rules of the exchange that has admitted the shares of the public company to organized trading1.

  1. Federal Law No. 208-FZ of December 26, 1995 "On Joint Stock Companies", as amended on July 15, 2026, Article 66, paragraph 6 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 1996. No. 1. Item 1. ↩

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