Pulpstone Works JSC announced that it was going to hold an extraordinary general meeting at 10 AM on November 17, 2006. The location of the meeting is 28 Elizavetinskoye Highway, Yekaterinburg. The points on the agenda include deciding on the inspector for the company. The list of shareholders eligible to attend will be compiled based on data available as of February 1, 2006.

SverdlovEnergoSbyt, the regional power supplier, is going to hold a general meeting in absentia on October 20, 2006. The Board of Directors will have to approve of the corporate policy management working agenda for 2006, which covers the company’s strategic development, medium-term and short-term activity planning, managing the activity of the Board, and keeping track of how the Board’s and the shareholders’ resolutions are fulfilled. Another point on the agenda concerns defining the company’s priority development paths, reports the spokesperson for SverdlovEnergoSbyt.

United Machine Building Works–Oil and Gas Projects (aka Izhorsk Works and part of United Machine Building Works) of Saint Petersburg has completed the fulfillment of the contract signed with SurgutNefteGaz, the oil producer of Surgut, for the delivery and full assembling of 24 600-cubic meter gasholders meant for storing wide spread light hydrocarbons. The contract was negotiated in the spring of 2005 and was worth around 340m RUR. United Machine Building Works–Oil and Gas Projects/Izhorsk Works is one of today’s largest Russian suppliers of equipment for storing wide spread light

Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) has been conducting a tender and deciding on the suppliers of the new equipment for the grinding and processing plant of its Goroblagodatskiy subsidiary. Accoridng to the company’s development program, this project will be receiving investments up to 2015. The enterprise has already chosen Sandvik of Sweden as the supplier of two breakers as the corporate technicians were fully satisfied with their characteristics and parameters. They still have to think of the best source to buy seven modern bolting machines, so the

SverdlovEnergoSbyt, the regional power and electricity supplier, laid 196 claims against unscrupulous consumers who have accumulated 132m RUR of debt altogether in July-September 2006. The Court of Arbitration has so far processed and secured 92m RUR worth of claims and is currently looking into the rest of them. Following the court decisions, SverdlovEnergoSbyt has received 30m RUR by now. The company also placed a few claims asking for 1m RUR worth of interest on arrears (based on Article 395 of Russian Civil Code; the court has so far secured over 700,000 RUR. The company’s demands for

The General Public Prosecution Authority of Russian Federation placed the criminal suit of former mayor of Trekhgorniy Nikolai Lubenets with the court of Trekhgorniy on October 11, 2006. According to the public prosecution bodies of Chelyabinsk Region, Mr Lubenets is charged with abuse of powers leading to severe damage (the accusation is covered by Article 286 (Parts II and III) of Russian Criminal Code. The preliminary investigation was carried out by the General Public Prosecution Authority of Russian Federation in assistance with the experts from the public prosecution bodies of

The Board of Directors of Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk decided to hold an extraordinary general meeting in absentia. The points on the agenda include declaration of offered share dividends for the nine months of 2006 and reorganizing the Complex through the acquisition of a new company. The shareholders must be notified of the meeting before October 28, 2006. The deadline for submitting the absentee ballots is November 28, 2006.