Russneft announced that as of June 30, 2015, there were just seven board members. Four people lost their seats on the Russneft board: Gutseriev's brother, Sait-Salam Gutseriev; Russneft Vice President for security Yury Dubrovsky; Maxim Kalyuzhny, a member of the board of directors of MZ Arsenal from St. Petersburg.

The one new addition to the Russneft board is Glencore representative Yana Tikhonova.