Mining executive receives Russia's largest-ever severance payout

UPDATED 7:00 AM EST, December 18, 2012
The board of Russia's Norilsk Nickel mining company approved a plan to pay outgoing executive Vladimir Strzhalkovsky $100 million, the largest-ever severance payment in Russia's history, The New York Times reports.
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