Boris Diakonov was appointed Chairman of Bank24.ru at the general shareholder meeting on September 13, 2006. ‘It makes sense to choose a shareholder with the second largest holding for the position,’ said Chairman of Management Board Sergey Lapshin. The Board of Directors now consists of Mr Lapshin, Independent Director Paul Goncharoff, and Counselors of Chairman of Management Board T. V. Pakulina and Yu. V. Petrovskiy, reports the spokesperson for the bank.

‘There is no doubt that this hypermarket is going to be popular with customers, especially at the beginning. Yet whether they will come back afterwards remains to be seen, given in particular the store’s whereabouts. Auchan isn’t located downtown, so it’s questionable whether the residents of Yekaterinburg will be visiting the place on regular basis,’ said Chairman of Alliance Independent Partnership Alexei Podolyako.

The amount of criminal lawsuits involving copyright violation has increased by fourfold this year (compared to 2005). Thus, the figure soared from 19 cases in the first half of 2005 to 80 cases in the first half of 2006. Following the applications from representatives of Microsoft, AutoDesk, and Adobe that claimed that some production and design offices might be using illegal copies of their copyrighted software, the public prosecution authorities of Sverdlovsk Region carried out a number of inquiries. These inquiries revealed that the offense did take place. The computers of one production

As the spokesperson for the Court of Noviy Urengoi said to UrBC representative, the court proceedings concerning the arrears of wages at SevTyumenTransPut would be resumed at 10 AM today. The case of Chairman of EuroGreen and former CEO of SevTyumenTransPut Ilya Gaffner, who is charged with failing to pay 47m RUR worth of wages to employees of SevTyumenTransPut, began yesterday. The public prosecution authorities that have been dealing with the inquiry believe that Mr Gaffner transmitted the money into the accounts of a number of Yekaterinburg firms. Should he be proved guilty, Mr Gaffner may

According to the spokesperson for the airport Yulia Fedotova, three Yekaterinburg-Moscow flights were delayed yesterday due to a bomb alarm. Ms Fedotova explained that the special service agents completed searching at 7 PM yesterday; the bomb wasn’t found, so the delayed planes eventually took off.

TGK-9, the local generating company, will start supplying heat to consumers after the municipal councils sign decrees on the beginning of the heating season, reports the company’s spokesperson. These documents are expected to be signed on September 15, and the first buildings to receive heat will be hospitals, schools, kindergartens and day care centers. In the meantime, the company’s experts say that the regional consumers owe the company 562m RUR, with Yekaterinburg’s largest communal facilities operators owing 227m RUR for the heat they’ve received. The bad debtors list includes operators

The court session concerning the claim laid by Starwood Trading Ltd. of the UK against Metallurgical Works of Zlatoust took place in Chelyabinsk Region Court of Arbitration on September 12, 2006. ‘The judge decided to involve the third party yesterday; this is the director of the Bahamas offshore zone; the works was using him to conduct most of its transactions. The assistant to the judge is now trying to get in touch with this person who is allegedly in Chelyabinsk at the moment,’ said the spokesperson for Sovetnik Ltd., the legal representative of the British company. Starwood Trading Ltd.

For two weeks, Stankomash, an industrial enterprise located in Chelyabinsk Region, has only been getting emergency power supply as its debt to ChelyabEnergoSbyt, the supplier, came to 7.8m RUR on September 1, 2006. The negotiations between the tow companies resulted in a compromise, the spokesperson for ChelyabEnergoSbyt said to UrBC representative. The management of Stankomash guaranteed the payment of debts by giving the supplier a schedule of payments and a promise made by the director of the works in person. ChelyabEnergoSbyt decided to start supplying the company with electricity in