The number of passengers has gone up by 11% since the beginning of the year (compared to January-September 2005) and came to 1,340,394 people. The number of flights offered went up by 7.4% and reached the figure of 9,771 flights, with the most popular destinations so far being Antalia and Hurghada. Koltsovo airport serviced 841,414 passengers on domestic flights (11.1% more than a year earlier), 389,211 international flights (10.7% more), and 109,769 passengers on flights to the countries of the NIS (+12.1%) in January-September 2006. In terms of flights, 7,295 of them were bound for various

A highway meant for transporting ore from Noviy-2 open cast mine at Burlukskoye depository is currently being constructed at Irbinksiy subsidiary of Evrazruda (ore maker and part of Evraz Group). This highway will allow the company to start extracting ore and transfer it to the grinding and processing plant using 55-on BelAZ trucks as well as transfer the overburden material to Noviy-1 mine and fill the emptied spaces with it. The road is filled with the production leftovers such as rock and chippings; everything is being done by the company’s employees, who have already put up 300 meters of

‘The court proceedings having to do with the case of Oksana Schegolkova, the accountant of Sredneuralskiy subsidiary of UralTransBank, were finalized yesterday. Ms Schegolkova was charged with fraud as she had allegedly used her access to the bank’s operation systems to transfer sums of money ranging between 10,000 RUR and 100,000 RUR from the customers’ accounts to the third party accounts,’ Deputy Public Prosecutor of Verkhyaya Pyshma Sergey Kravchuk said to UrBC representative. ‘Ms Schegolkova was not detained as this was considered too much for a pregnant woman – this was her condition at

UralKaliy, potassium maker of Perm Region, decided not to go through with the public offering of its shares at London Stock Exchange. The shareholders feel it is impossible to get the adequate response from the potential investors at present. The decision to offer up to 29% of the company’s authorized capital (that is, no more than 616,073,100 ordinary shares) was initially made at an extraordinary general meeting in August 2006. The Federal Financial Market Service gave the company permission to place up to 29% of its shares abroad on September 21, 2006. The company declared the public

Property of Kopeisk Production Management Producers' Co-operative has been put up to auction. The lot is made up of ChelyabInvestBank share holding (1,749 ordinary shares and 249 preference shares) and the company’s production stock. The opening bid for the shares is 1,998 RUR. The results of the auction will be summed up on October 23, 2006.

Trust Insurance Company is going to hold an extraordinary general meeting on November 3, 2006. The shareholders will have to decide on whether to raise the company’s authorized capital via private placement of ordinary shares, and on how many shares to place. The other points on the agenda cover settling down the price of the placement, the payment format, and the kinds of assets that could be used to pay for the company’s shares.

The final decision as to whether to annul the license allowing Eureka Mining to develop Mikheevskoye field will be made by the Russian Federation Ministry of Natural Resources, which has recently received a complaint from the regional public prosecution bodies that claim the English company do not obey the licensing agreements, First Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Vladimir Dyatlov announced at a conference. ‘If Eureka Mining tried harder, it would have pretty good chances of keeping the license; yet there are a lot of people willing to develop the deposit more effectively, so the