By the end of the year, 17,000 visas to Czech Republic will be issued in Sverdlovsk Region. This was mentioned by Mr Karel Haranza, Consul General of Czech Republic to Yekaterinburg, during the recent press conference.

Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar JSC, part of Evraz Group, is carrying out acceptance tests of a new type of primed demolition blocks. By order of Rostekhnadzor, the pilot lot of the blocks manufactured from ballistite-type propellant is to be tested at the company’s explosives production plant within a week. It is the second pilot lot of primers received by the Enterprise, both lots come from Bashkiria. According to the order of the Enterprise, the manufacturer made the primed demolition blocks more secure and efficient by placing them into plastic cartridges. The

On September 21, 2006, Chelyabinsk Region Court of Arbitration carried out a preliminary trial of the lawsuit brought by Chelyabinsk Cellular Communications Ltd. (the company uses Tele-2 as its trademark) against Chelyabinsk Department of Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service. The lawsuit concerns an order issued by the defendant that is now being disputed by the plaintiff. The region’s three major cellular communication operators, MTS, UralSvyazInfrom, and Beeline, had earlier complained about Chelyabinsk Cellular Communications Ltd. using a disputable slogan (Tele2 is always cheaper), which

UralFinPromBank decided to expand the range of loans to small-scale business. Their new program allows for an increase in the company’s floating assets as well as provides opportunities to buy things from equipment to real estate and to upgrade the production facilities. The loan could be offered for any term not exceeding three years, with the annual interest rate determined uniquely in each particular case. The loan ranges from 300,000 RUR to 10,000,000 RUR. The preliminary decision as to whether to give a loan is reported to a client within twenty minutes. The obvious advantages of this

The company’s fixed assets have come to 22,995m RUR in the six months of 2006, with 19,232m being the permanent assets and 138m being the financial ones. The floating assets amounted to 9,128m RUR, of which 2,820m were inventory holdings and 5,037m were accounts receivable. Thus, the total assets of the regional potassium maker came to 32,123m RUR. The company’s long-term liabilities come to 7,184m RUR, its short-term liabilities to 5,099m; with short-term loans amounting to 2,593m, bills payable to suppliers and contractors coming to 2,372m, and income tax debt coming to 43m RUR; the other

Former GD Vitaliy Kotenok resigned in order to become Regional Network Director in the company’s headquarters. Maxim Abushaev was appointed acting GD. He says that the appointment of the General Director will have been settled within a month.

‘Chelyabinsk Region market mainly gets strong drinks from the North Caucasus (Beslan and Vladikavkaz), Saint Petersburg, and Chelyabinsk. The latter has two companies that deal in producing non-refined spirit (Veles Ltd. and Alexandra Ltd.). So far, 99% of the recent poisonings have been caused by the juniper-flavored drink produced by these two manufacturers (as far as the label claims),’ Head of Chelyabinsk Region Department of RosPotrebNadzor (a consumer rights surveillance service) Anatoliy Semenov announced at the press conference. ‘However, the investigation of the poisonings revealed