Board of Directors of Karpinsk Mashinostroitelny Zavod JSC has come up with the decision to hold an extraordinary stockholders’ meeting on April 6, 2006. The list of stockholders eligible for the meeting is composed according to the situation for March 3, 2006. The shares are nominal and noncertificated, the face value of a single share is 95 RUR. The total quantity of the shares is 247,890 items.

SverdlovEnergoSbyt JSC is welcoming their new Executive Director Sergey Popov, former Chief Engineer of Yekaterinburg Electro-network Company. At the recent top-management meeting, GD Andrey Makarov announced that the shifts would not affect the company’s strategic policy.

In February 2006, Kombinat Magnesite JSC, member of Magnesite Group, supplied a consignment of 1,000 tons of PPTI-1-92 periclase powders to Czech and Romanian factories. The consumers are satisfied with the price and the quality of the shipped powders, hence their demand rates remain stable, the company’s PR-department reported to UrBC representative. Having regard to the state of the market, Magnesite Group is going to extend its presence in Eastern and Central Europe. The company plans for March 2006 provide for supplying a total of 3,000 tons of periclase powders to Germany, Czech Republic

Following the order of Federal Financial Markets Service, National Banking History Bureau was included in the official state roll of bureaus, reports the company’s spokesperson. By February 28, 2006, over 350 banks have signed the information exhange agreements with the Bureau, which means it is now cooperating with crediting organizations from all Russian Federation subjects. At the moment, there is a total of five bureaus on the list.

The similar productions of Evraz Group achieve closer cooperation. As part of these cooperative activities, the metallurgical works of Nizhny Tagil (Nizhnetagilsky Metallurgichesky Kombinat, NTMK JSC) integrated in Evraz Group received a rail rolling metal consignment of 600 tons from another member of Evraz, Novokuznetsky Metallurgichesky Kombinat JSC (metallurgical works of Novokuznetsk). The decision to ship the metal from Novokuznetsk to Nizhny Tagil was made by the Evraz Group balance committee to improve the distribution of production capacities of its metallurgical works, NTMK JSC

CHTZ-Uraltrack Ltd. housed Traktorozavodskiy Technopark Ltd. According to Uraltrack representative Evgeniy Kitaev, the park is home to a furniture factory, leather goods manufacture, ravioli production line, toys and a number of other firms. The new company is to run the commercial management of Uraltrack’s assets, including offering the offices for rent. It has already become the administrator of the company’s main buildings, equipment, engineering services and railways. Thus, it is going to be fully responsible for their repair, protection, and maintenance. The company’s constitutors are

Uralkaliy JSC has distributed its profits for 2005. The company’s stockholders’ meeting has come up with the decision to pay the share dividend of 2.46 RUR, hence the total of distributed profits has come to 5,225,999,400 RUR. The liabilities to stockholders are to have been fulfilled by February 28, 2006. By March 1, 2006, the total of paid share dividends came to 5,149,091,707.44 RUR, the company’s report says. Therefore, the payment of 76,907,692.56 RUR of share dividends remain unfulfilled.

Chelyabgortrans is going to arrange a bank loan of 40 million RUR with Chelyabinsk Administration as guarantor; such was the decision made by the city Duma at the meeting yesterday. ‘To ensure uninterrupted public transport service, we thought it would be a good idea to consider a credit,’ said Vice Mayor for Transportation Vladimir Aleinikov. He believes the money should be used for the repayment of debts and buying combustive-lubricating fuel. Chelyabgortrans owed the local electricity supplier nearly 16.5 million RUR in mid-February, which resulted in power cuts in the buildings and