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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Phillip Inman

Institute of Directors calls on Britons to quit Russian boards

Huge rolls of aluminium wire in a factory, with a man in a hard hat fiddling with one of them.
Aluminium production at an EN+ subsidiary in Shelekhov, Russia: former Tory minister Greg Barker has been urged to quit his role on the EN+ board. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

A business lobby group has called on British directors to resign from the boards of Russian companies to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

The Institute of Directors said the war in Ukraine meant it was “untenable” for British directors to remain on the boards of Russian companies, adding that any directors of Belarusian firms should also quit.

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