Russian diamond giant Alrosa said yesterday it is considering selling shares to retail investors in east Siberia’s Yakutia region, where it has several mines. It could be the first step of a restructure plan from closed to an open joint stock company, to attract financing for mining projects. President Fyodor Andreev said the idea is to make Alrosa “a people’s company”, which could be done allowing the company’s employees and local citizens to buy stocks.