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Last Saturday I had a phone call from my Togliatti friend. You may remember I was writing a lot about conflict of shareholders around world’s largest ammonia producer Togliattiazot — company’s minority shareholder Uralchem accusing TOAZ management in stripping company’s profits and selling its assets. A friend of mine from Togliatti’s regional newspaper told me on the phone that TOAZ has scheduled its annual shareholders meeting. First thing which surprised me — the meeting was scheduled on Sunday, March, 26, at 8:00 AM. Not the very obvious time for shareholders to come and do business, isn’t it? I though it was done to not allow Uralchem to participate in the meeting. I was told that on the meeting the main issue of discussion were distribution of dividends and many TOAZ workers who own small stakes of the plant will be coming to the meeting to find out what amount of plant’s profits will be distributed to them. They came to the meeting despite the conflict of shareholders and obstacles they faced, as it was quite uneasy to get through to the meeting.