‘Following the administrative trial, Building Materials Group Ltd. will have to pay the fine of 35,000 RUR and submit nine system units with pirated software worth over 130,000 RUR,’ reported the spokesperson for the Public Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk Region. ‘The preliminary investigation brought to light that Building Materials Group was using illegal copies of Microsof software, so now the case has been transferred to court. The charge concerned Article 7.12 (part 1) of Russian Administrative Code: infringement of copyright and neighboring rights) and was looked into by the Justice of the

Sverdlovsk Region Ministry of Industry, Power Engineering and Science have approved of the supply limits schedule for the fall/winter 2006/2007 proposed by SverdlovEnergo, the local supplier, reports the spokesperson for the company. Designing and supervising the compliance with the schedule are some of the steps aimed at providing reliable electricity supply by the guaranteeing supplier of Sverdlovsk Region. The schedules are drawn up annually by the working team consisting of the company’s representatives. The schedules were approved of by the regional dispatching service and by Sverdlovsk

The company appointed special people (department directors and chief management experts) who will now be in charge of each type of its activity liable to licensing. These people will be responsible for renewing the licenses before the deadline, getting the new ones promptly, and making sure that all licensing requirements and provisos are complied with. This committee of people in charge will, in its turn, be monitored by the company’s Managing Director. At the moment, the IT Department is preparing to renew its license entitling the enterprise to provide local telephone communication,

Since the beginning of the year, about 500 mangers, experts and workers from fifteen departments of Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil (part of Evraz Group) have successfully undergone certification. The certification is used by the company’s management to make decisions about awards, promotions and further professional training of the employees. So far, eighty-five people proved their right to get promotions, pay rises and becoming alternative manager candidates. 170 people were recommended to get additional training. The employees were assessed by an ad hoc committee

Chelyabinsk Region Department of Emergencies received a message about the accident involving the section of an oil-trunk pipeline within five kilometers of the village of Berdyasush on October 23, 2006. The diameter of the pipeline comes to 720 millimeters, the pressure amounts to 20 atm. The accident involves an oil spill, with the threat of poisoning the River Bolshaya Satka. As the spokesperson for Chelyabinsk Region Department of Emergencies said to UrBC representative, the accident was caused by the soil caving that resulted in decapsulation of the weld seam of TOH-2 oil-trunk pipeline.

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin met Head of State Duma Environmental Committee Vladimir Grachev yesterday. Mr Grachev updated the Governor on what the committee had done in terms of Techenskiy tandem reservoir system and gave Mr Sumin the official report signed by thirty-two academicians, professors, and nuclear safety experts. They came to the conclusion that Mayak had been damaging the local environment for decades, which resulted in the issue becoming more than just one region’s problem. This is the question of state importance that needs to be approached seriously and dealt with

Metallurgical Works of Zlatoust assessed its success in nine months of 2006. The company produced 439,000 tons of steel and 310,442 tons of rolled metal and shipped 308,732 tons of metal goods in September 2006. It also sold more than 6bn RUR worth of goods in January-September 2006, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative.