National Cable Networks Group announced the completion of a purchasing agreement with TeleSet Service Ltd. (aka CABiNET), the local internet provider. This acquisition is the logical continuation of the company’s strategy aimed at the expanding of business and increasing capitalization. ‘We are trying to build up our share of the regional markets through buying out the local operators. With TeleSet becoming part of our group, we’ll be able to boost our development and offer the residents of Yekaterinburg an integrated service pack that will include both access to the Internet and cable TV

Vanadium, Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar (part of Evraz Group), keeps trying to expand the database containing information on iron content in the ore the company extracts. The corporate technicians are currently busy making a new iron-distribution map of the development fields for 2007. The data on iron content and distribution are to be obtained via drilling wildcat wells, well testing, and use of geophysical methods. Provided such diagnostic is precise, it will raise the production throughput impressively. The development of Gusevogorskoye deposit of titaniferous

Ural Turbine Works is now upgrading its quality service as part of its technical modernization program. In order to increase precision and speed of product quality testing, the company has already bought and introduced AA6300 atomic absorptive spectrophotometer and a special device meant for hardness gauging produced by Kraut Kremer of Germany. All this is primarily aimed at completing the plan for 2006-2007, which requires reducing the preparation phase of production, reports the company’s spokesperson.

The trustee in bankruptcy of Tyushevskiy Distillery Ltd. announced that the company’s spirit-making facility, equipment (pledged as security) and non-pledged equipment were put up to auction. The opening bid is 13,454,420 RUR. This price covers the VAT and requires a deposit of 10% of the opening bid, each next bid must exceed the previous one by no less than 5% of the opening bid. The applications are accepted since October 2, 2006 at 163 Bolshevistskaya St. Off. 35, Perm. The auction will be held on at 163 Bolshevistskaya St. Off. 313 at 2 PM on October 31, 2006, with applicants registered

Ural Turbine Works has been upgrading its gas turbine facility; so far, the company has already introduced four universal continuous milling machines meant for producing spare parts. The works has also been considering buying the multi-purpose machining center in order to raise the range of products and amount of spare parts produced, reports the spokesperson for Ural Turbine Works.

‘This flight to Georgia used to be performed by Dbilaviamsheni Airlines on Sundays, but, apparently, there will be no more flights,’ the spokesperson for Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg Yulia Fedotova said to UrBC representative. The Russian Federation Department of Transportation cancelled all kinds of transport and postal connections to Georgia on October 3, 2006. According to the Head of Russian Federation Public Air-navigation Service Alexander Neradko, the canceling of flights was caused by the accumulating debt of Georgian carriers.

The top managers of OGK-2, the heat and power generating company, received abstracts of the united state register of legal entities that report the closing down of Stavropolskaya, Pskovskaya, and Surgutskaya power stations as independent legal bodies on September 29, 2006; they have now become subsidiaries of OGK-2. According to the company’s GD Mikhail Kuzichev, their investment program for 2006-2010 consists of three projects targeted at increasing the throughput of the corporate powers stations, putting up a 330-megawatt coal-based power generating unit at Serovskaya power station,

South Ural Medical Insurance Company will hold EGM on October 27, 2006. The agenda has to do with the issue of possible closing down and selecting the settlement committee.