Commercial Director of Ural Airlines JSC Kirill Skuratov spoke on the results of the company’s recent re-branding at today’s press conference called What Ural Airlines Have in Store for the Coming Fall. ‘So far, the company has serviced 700,000 passengers after the completion of the campaign, which is 12% more than in the same period of 2005,’ Mr Skuratov said.

Russian ore maker Evrazruda (part of Evraz Group) puts up ventilation and hot-air generator at its Tashtagolskiy subsidiary within the framework of long-term development program. The construction of the generator, meant for Novocapitalniy groove, was started a few years ago but had to be stopped and was only resumed this summer. The generator was designed by SibGiproRuda, with Novokuznetskstroy Ltd. acting as the general contractor. The new facility will replace the worn-out generator and provide reliable and uninterrupted mine ventilation. In winter, the generator will produce hot air to

18 representatives of World Association of Nuclear Operators coming from seven different countries had been examining the station for two weeks (September 3 to September 15). This was followed by a press conference held for the local mass media, with reports presented by the Director of the station Nikolai Oshkanov, Director of WANO in Moscow Farit Tukhvetov, the leader of the international expert team Yaroslav Vokurek of the Czech Republic and Production Director of NAEK Ivan Foltov of the Ukraine. The experts commented on the great level of operation and safety; they concluded that all the

The bank assessed the results of its activity throughout January to August 2006. Its balance sheet total went up by 70.5% and amounted to 9.29bn RUR on September 1, 2006 (compared to 5.45bn on January 1, 2006). The bank’s owned capital rose by 45.2% (or by 893.84m). The net wealth increased by 53.5% and amounted to 8.06bn RUR (5.25bn on January 1). The volume of the bank’s income-earning assets came to 6.11bn RUR, with the growth of 46.2%. The loan portfolio went up by 36% and came to 4.28bn RUR (3.15bn on January 1, 2006). The securities portfolio reached the point of 1.8bn RUR, which

The Board of Directors of TGK-9, the power generating company, decided on the consultants who will assist the enterprise in public offer of the additional share issue. These consultants come from Morgan Stanley and Co. International Limited and Troika Dialog Investment Company. Baker and McKenzie CIS Limited are going to act as the company’s legal advisors, reports the spokesperson for TGK-9. The consultants were chosen after the open competitive negotiations that took place in August 2006. The applicants for the task had to have some experience in working on the international and Russian

Ural Airlines looked at their achievements in the eight months of 2006. The company’s re-branding, for example, led to the average 73.8% of seats used within an aircraft each flight, which is 4.7% better than in January-August 2005, says Commercial Director of Ural Airlines JSC Kirill Skuratov. According to the carrier’s recent press release, the company sees breaking into the global market and becoming a truly international company as its top strategic priorities. This includes world-class service and fleet as well as flying all over the globe. In order to achieve these goals, the company

A new colour ultrasound HDI-5000 diagnostic machine has recently been installed at the medical center of Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil (part of Evraz Graoup). It is much more sensitive and has a better ‘vision’ than the earlier generation devices, this is why the machine can trace a whole range of various diseases at a very early stage as well as examine the viscera and blood vessels. This new diagnostic system is quite unique. The company’s medical center is now the only place in Nizhniy Tagil that actually has it, as such devices used to be only installed in major