‘Yesterday, the court of arbitration decided that apartments located at 72 Khokhryakova St. should be arrested,’ Elena Ivanova, the Chief Accountant of Ural State Economic University, said to UrBC. ‘These apartments have already been decorated and furbished the sale ads have already been placed online, so HydroSpetsStroy Ltd. (the general contractor of Noviy Grad, the builder) might have sold some of them. We intend to fight this company’s illegal policies and protect the public property,’ Ms Ivanova said. Ural State Economic University was given a land allotment by the mayor as early as

Metalline Ltd. pulled down the so called E. I. Schevkunova house located at 51 Rosa Luxemburg St. This was a historic building dating back to the first half of the nineteenth century. The house was originally rented by Metalline Ltd., but it had already been completely demolished by January 13, 2004, reports Sverdlovsk Region Cultural Heritage Protection Center.

‘The subscribers of MegaFon Ural, the mobile operator, appear to be ever-interested in our EDGE/GPRS services; our Internet traffic consumption, for instance, went up 2.5 times last year,’ PR Director of MegaFon Ural Lyudmila Protasova said to UrBC. ‘MegaFon Ural has been investing heavily in the development of additional services as well as making them conveniently accessible. Our EDGE/GPRS services are included in the basic service package and are thus available as soon as one gets connected to MegaFon; there is also an automatic settings system that can be obtained through the phone SIM

An additional 26-hectare land patch was allotted in Yekaterinburg for the construction of roads providing links to and from the would-be Academic district, reports Sverdlovsk Region Ministry of Natural Resources. The patch has been taken from Uktus forestry and is meant for roads necessary to the city-dwellers from the would-be district and from the south-west of the city. The Federal Environmental Management Surveillance Agency approved of the decision.

According to Sverdlovsk Region Cultural Heritage Protection Center, eight historic buildings were pulled down in Yekaterinburg in 2004-2006; two of them were based in Verkh-Isetskiy district, one in Kirovskiy district, two in Leninskiy district, and three in Oktyabrskiy district.

‘Following the arrival of the federal and multinational players on Yekaterinburg retail food market, it had to undergo redistribution, yet it’s early times yet to say if the changes happened to be substantial,’ says Alexei Podolyako, CEO of Alliance Non-Commercial Partnership. ‘The changes appear to be most keenly felt in the areas adjacent to the new supermarkets’ premises. Grossmart is the one who managed to achieve the most by taking over 8% to 10% of Pionerskiy-district grocery market. Auchan and Metro are based on the outskirts of the city, so it would be an exaggeration to say they have

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of investments placed by nongovernmental financial bodies with UralTransBank for a term of 91 to 180 days went down 33.3% (from 3 million RUR to 2 million) in January-November 2006.

The report on the state of the environment and the way environmental factors affect the health of Sverdlovsk Region population indicates that enterprises located in Kamensk-Uralskiy, Sverdlovsk Region, have produced 1,478,600 tons of waste, of which 53,140 tons are classed as having environmental hazard levels I to IV. Krasnogorskaya power station (part of TGK-9), with its 188,600 tons of waste, is Kamensk-Uralskiy’s major waste producer.

‘Yekaterinburg retail food market has no niches available at the moment; there is a notion that they do exist and can be occupied, but this is, in fact, a mere illusion,’ Alexei Podolyako, CEO of Alliance Non-Commercial Partnership, reported to UrBC. ‘The arrival on the local market is currently performed in the make-way-for-me format, so if any new player comes up, they have to fight to get a share of the market. However, if this player can boast some impressive competitive advantages and is capable of using them properly, they will find their place in the sun,’ Mr Podolyako explains.

Leninskiy court of Yekaterinburg satisfied the claims laid by the regional environmental prosecution bodies and Rosselkhoznadzor (Russia’s state agricultural watchdog) against Fifth Generating Company of Wholesale Electricity Market (aka OGK-5) regarding the installation of fish-trapping devices in the withdrawal facilities located at Reftinskaya power station on January 26, 2007. Reftinskaya power station has been for quite a while ignoring the law that demands that fish-trapping devices be installed in the withdrawal facilities; the company’s failing to do so damages the environment and the

The meeting of URSA Bank’s Board of Directors took place in Yekaterinburg on February 1, 2007. In the course of the meeting, general director Kirill Brell finalized the recent merger of Uralvneshtorgbank and SibAcademBank by announcing the names of the new bank’s management. Deputy GD and Member of the Board Svetlana Mironova is going to become CEO URSA Bank in the Urals. Prior to this appointment, Ms Mironova used to supervise SibAcademBank’s division dealing in services to businesses. Before this, she had been running Kuzbasskiy, the bank’s largest subsidiary based in Kemerovo. Executive