The shareholders of VSMPO-Avisma Corporation voted at an extraordinary general meeting on September 28 to approve payment of interim dividends for the first half of 2018 in the amount of RUB 756 per share, the company said in a statement. VSMPO-Avisma will pay out a total of more than 8.7 billion rubles, or almost its whole net profit to Russian Accounting Standards for the first half of 2018. The date of record is October 12. VSMPO-Avisma paid an interim dividend of RUB 762.68 per share for the first half of 2017, so the dividend for the first half of this year is down by 1%.