sentences:  In 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union a joint-stock company was created, RAO Norilsk Nickel.Two years afterwards control over the deeply indebted company, which was bleeding cash at a rate of about $2,000,000 a day amid falling nickel prices, was given to a private company, Interros.By the time the privatization was completed in 1997, the company became profitable and the workers were paid.