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1242005NORILSK NICKEL • ANNUAL REPORT •NORILSK NICKEL • ANNUAL REPORT •2005125MINING AND METALLURGICAL COMPANY NORILSK NICKELREPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORSTo the management of Open Joint Stock Company"Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel"We have audited the consolidated annual financial statementsfor the year ended 31 December 2005 of Open Joint StockCompany "Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel"and its subsidiaries (the "Group"), set out on pages 3-55.The consolidated annual financial statements are the responsibilityof the Group's management. Our responsibility is toexpress an opinion on the consolidated annual financial statementsbased on our audit.We conducted our audit in accordance with InternationalStandards on Auditing. Those standards require that we planand perform our audit to obtain reasonable assurance aboutwhether the consolidated annual financial statements are freeof material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on atest basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosuresin the consolidated annual financial statements. An audit alsoincludes assessing the accounting principles used and significantestimates made by management, as well as evaluatingthe overall presentation of the consolidated annual financialstatements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonablebasis for our opinion.In our opinion, the consolidated annual financial statementspresent fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financialposition of the Group at 31 December 2005, and theconsolidated results of its operations, its cash flows andchanges in shareholders' equity for the year then ended, inaccordance with International Financial Reporting Standards.Deloitte & Touche CISMoscow7 June 2006CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENTFOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2005(US dollars million)Notes 2005 2004Metal sales 6 7,169 6,591Cost of metal sales 7 (2,994) (2,938)Gross profit on metal sales 4,175 3,653Selling, general and administrative expenses 13 (841) (821)Other net operating expenses 14 (58) (166)Operating profit 3,276 2,666Finance costs 15 (95) (67)Net income from investments 16 59 5Other non-operating expenses 17 (124) (97)Profit before taxation 3,116 2,507Taxation 18 (838) (642)Profit for the year from continuing operations 2,278 1,865Profit/(loss) for the year from discontinued operation 4 74 (8)Profit for the year 2,352 1,857Attributable to:Shareholders of the parent company 2,355 1,878Minority interest (3) (21)EARNINGS PER SHARE2,352 1,857Weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue during the year 28 201,242,833 210,642,516Basic and diluted earnings per sharefrom continuing and discontinued operations (US cents) 1,170 892Basic and diluted earnings per sharefrom continuing operations (US cents) 1,133 893CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF MMCNORILSK NICKEL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 200513

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