In the nearest future, SUBR JSC (regional bauxite producer, part of SUAL Group) will launch Dialogue, an intranet communication system. The company’s GD Viktor Radko has already issued the corresponding order. The system includes setting up of an around-the-clock telephone number. One can now leave a notice concerning any disturbing questions via voice mail. The company is also going to install special mailboxes in all of its subdivisions. Any employee will be permitted to transfer his or her questions to the company’s top management via the mailboxes. The introduction of the Dialogue system

License No. 35098 giving Uralwestcom CJSC the right to render cellular communication services in NMT-450i standard will expire on September 1, 2006. Therefore, since September 1, 2006 no cellular communication services in NMT-450i standard will be rendered and the company will confine its operations to running the Skylink-Yekaterinburg network. This was reported by Uralwestcom CJSC PR-department.

Urals branch of commercial bank AGROPROMCREDIT Ltd. was introduced in Yekaterinburg. The branch office, located in the center of the city (5 Karl Liebknecht St.), is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Sundays and Saturdays. This was reported by the bank PR-department. The bank services businesses operating in power, oil-and-gas, coal and other industries, insurance and financial companies, nongovernmental pension funds, a number of regional governmental organizations and municipalities. AGROPROMCREDIT Ltd. is operating in ‘financial supermarket’ format: not only are the bank’s

Tashtagolskiy subsidiary of Evrazruda JSC (part of Evraz Group) has recently completed the major overhaul that had been preventing the workers from mining ore for a whole month. Yet they were still able to supply the concentrate from the earlier stock, and all the repairs were fully completed well before the deadline. While the subsidiary was put out of operation, the company’s experts were able to speed up the reconstruction of the technological facilities at the processing plant. They converted the plant to a two-phase ore concentrate processing scheme, which raises the iron content by

Chelyabinsk division of South Ural Railroad shipped over 3.437 million tons of goods, with the average daily amount coming to 110,871 tons. The workers operating at the stations of Chelyabinsk Region shipped the average of 61,535 tons daily. The workers operating in Zlatoust Region shipped the average of 49,518 tons a day, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.

Former Sales Director of the company’s office in Rostov, Viktor Dolzhenko was appointed Head of Yekaterinburg subsidiary of Troika Dialogue, reports the spokesperson for Troika Dialogue Group. ‘This appointment matters a lot to me; I’ve been part of the corporate team for a number of years, and I’m happy to be given a chance to contribute to the business development in the capacity of the regional director,’ Mr Dolzhenko said.

Mechel-Bank JSC started dealing in loans given via VISA plastic cards in Tyumen on August 1, 2006. The introduction of the bank’s subsidiary in Tyumen was registered by the Bank of Russia Administration in Chelyabinsk Region on June 7, 2006. The office has an ATM providing both cash and information concerning ones’ account.

ChelyabEnergro JSC, Chelyabinsk Region networked energy supplier, does not possess any stake in the authorized capital of Energia CJSC (dealing in real estate) any more: this was part of RAO UES of Russia project aimed at its companies getting rid of assets non-core to the business. The decision was made by the Board of Directors in the hope that selling the share holding would increase the profitability of their capital, build up on capitalization of earnings and attract more investments. Besides, selling such assets will allow the company to significantly reduce expenses and use the