Federal Antimonopoly Service in Sverdlovsk Region is now considering the case of BBH, the alcohol-producing company, concerning violations of beer advertising legislation. According to the spokesperson for Advertising Law Compliance and Unfair Competition Surveillance Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in Sverdlovsk Region, the charge involves Article 22 (part II, paragraph 6) of the Advertising Law: the company allegedly placed its billboards at fewer than 100 meters away from the building of school 134 in Komsomolskaya St. in July 2006. ‘The Service has recently drawn up a

Regional division of Federal Financial Market Service registered the decision and the report about an issue of ordinary registered paperless shares by Industrial Urals-Polar Urals Corporation. The issue consists of 30,000 shares with face value of 1,000 RUR each. The state serial number is 1-01-32851-D; the shares are to be offered to the company’s incorporators. The issue was registered on September 22, 2006.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, UralTransBank gave 23% fewer short-term loans (for a term of up to 30 days) to sole traders in January-September 2006. The figure has gone down from 44,096,000 RUR to 33,765,000 RUR over the nine months of 2006.

Chairman of United Machine Building Works Alexei Matveev and General Director of United Machine Building Works Evgeniy Sergeev presented their company’s strategy to mass media in the course of a business breakfast that took place yesterday. Mr Matveev told the reporters about the corporate strategy aimed at developing the business through expanding the assets it has in terms of the activities core to the business; the other points have to do with diversification of business and allying with the leading companies in the field. According to the Chairman, the company is now at the new

Evrazruda (part of Evraz Group) assessed its success in terms of raising the raw stuff and final product quality in the third quarter of 2006. All of the company’s ore mining enterprises managed to meet the demands concerning the iron content in the ore and ore concentrate they extract; Abagurskiy and Myndybashskiy processing plants met the demands concerning the quality of agglomerate and commercial concentrate. Besides, all of the company divisions were able to reduce the iron content in the final tailings. Technicians of Gurievskiy subsidiary, who had been working on raising the

Environmental prosecution bodies of Chelyabinsk Region took criminal action following the fracture of TON (Tuymazy-Omsk-Novosibirsk) oil-trunk pipeline in Satkinskiy District, their spokesperson said to UrBC representative. The accident occured during construction works on October 20-23, 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. The estimated scale of the spill comes to 400 cubic meters, with the contaminated area coming to 5,500 square meters,

The regional deputies have approved of the special program targeted at helping risk-group families and children in 2007; the project was originally proposed by the President of Magnesite Group Sergey Korostelev. The new program is expected to enhance the efficiency of the regional family-friendly programs as well programs aimed at preventing family instability and helping unsupervised children, minors, and so-called social orphans. The program is partly based on its successful counterpart in Satkinskiy municipal district. It is supposed to involve creation of a multi-faceted system of

Net profit of Trubodetal, the tube and tube parts maker, went down by 11.698% in the third quarter of 2006. According to the company’s report, this was caused by a decrease in sales and increase in expenses not related to sales. The figure has dropped from 76,788,000 RUR to 67,805,000 RUR within a quarter of the year.