Metallurgical Works of Zlatoust JSC transferred 606,179,000 RUR to various budgets and off-budget funds in 2005, of which retirement payments comprised 104 million, with social welfare tax payments coming to 195 million (220 million if including the payments in January 2006). 35,518,000 RUR were transferred in the first two months of 2006, with the average of 16 million a month. The total of all tax payments came to 606,179,000 RUR in 2005.

‘Sverdlovsk Electricity Networks are thinking of ceasing hot water supplies to 114 blocks of flats on March 28, 2006,’ says the company’s spokesperson. The reason for this is debts of the managing companies whose total debt to the networks came to 240 million RUR. The warnings have already been sent to all the non-payers, including Verkh-Isetskiy, SUERZH, Leninskiy, Radomir and Ural-ST – managing companies from various areas of the city.

Troitsk State District Power Plant is still working on technical reequipment; thus, PROTAR microprocessor sliders are now being reinstalled to provide for the use of САР - АRCON software aimed at improving the quality of dynamic reloczation. The program allows to more precisely determine the tooling coefficients of four PROTAR-111 units assembled at the steam bypass regulator of block № 7. The new tooling is going to more efficiently and automatically keep the temperature coming out of the pot stable and provide for a quicker system response in different settings.

Metallurgical Works of Chelyabinsk and Ural Smithy JSC (part of MEchel JSC) took part in the International exhibition PromStroyIndustriya – Astana 2006. The total number of the participants amounted to 250 companies from 12 countries of the world. The spokesperson for Metallurgical Works of Chelyabinsk reports that Mechel stand exhibited samples of most items the works produces, from fittings to steel samples to packs and rolls of stainless steel, as well as samples of stamped blanks for oil and gas industry and machine building produced by Ural Smithy JSC. The two companies view their

Ural India Limited, joint venture by Ural car factory and Motidjag Agency Ltd. of India, started operating in Haldia today, says the spokesperson for Ural Car Factory. The contract provides for the delivery of 150 cars and car parts worth $4 million. The first seaway shipment comprises 30 car sets of Ural 555717-40 back dumping dump-trucks with 6x6 axle arrangement. Ural Car Factory specialists are providing technical and methodological assistance to their Indian colleagues.

Video International Ural CJSC launched its new product, Business Center, on March 27, 2006. This is a service allowing the advertisers to quickly place a text ad, a static or dynamic image on various TV channels. The information will be aired the next day. ‘We’ve lowered the prices to let the firms on a tight advertising budget or large enterprises use the advantage of the federal channels to spread the news of, say, job vacancies or sales. Besides, the ad will be accompanied by some viewer-handy information such as loan and deposit options, rate of exchange or playbills. We want our clients