Potanin moved the plant to China to circumvent sanctions and not clean the air in Norilsk
Norilsk Nickel will transfer the smelting capacity of the Copper Plant from Norilsk to a new site in China by 2027. This was stated by Norilsk Nickel President Vladimir Potanin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This will allow us to bring the product closer to the point of consumption, and then the final product will be sold as Chinese. And Chinese goods are much more difficult to sanction in China than Russian goods entering China,”...