Victor Diachkov, General Director, ICL — KME CS, comments: “It is an important step for us to transform from a large but fairly closed company with a limited number of shareholders to a public company that trades on the securities market. The idea was ripe for entering the public market by our company several years ago, but there was no clarity in understanding the mechanism for implementing this plan. Cooperation with Moscow Exchange as part of the strategy to enter the iIM has become a timely and understandable tool for making that idea spring to life. The assessment of experts gave us confidence that we are moving in the right direction.”