‘UC RUSAL’s Severouralsk bauxite mine (SUBR) was supposed to switch to a four-day working week early in February 2009; however, on second thought, the enterprise’s management decided to wait, since it turned out that the public prosecution authorities had been rather alarmed by this news. In fact, the order to this extent really was not formalized in accordance with all the existing regulations. For one, the employer failed to inform the workers about the change in their working conditions two months in advance (as the rules state). This is why, as far as I know, the prosecution authorities

The amount of money kept in VUZ-Bank’s customers’ settlement accounts went down by 66.094 million RUR (from 646.229 million RUR to 580.135 million RUR) last December. These data are available from Bank24.ru’s official website featuring a report on the performance of Sverdlovsk Region’s banks.

‘The construction of the new international flights terminal is almost finished, so the terminal will probably have been launched by the end of March 2009. By this time, the architectural finish of the control tower will have been completed as well. As for the equipment, the delivery and assembly jobs are to begin in May,’ Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport’s General Director Kirill Shubin announced at a meeting devoted to special construction projects monitored by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel. ‘However, while Yekaterinburg is hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Moskommerzbank Commercial Bank decided to close down its subsidiaries based in Ural Federal District. These include the bank’s offices in Tyumen and Chelyabinsk. So, Moskommerzbank no longer runs any subsidiaries in Ural Federal District.

‘Sverdlovsk Region is not going to enter The Industrial Urals-The Polar Urals (a corporation created to support the industrial development of the Urals’ north). Joining this corporation would actually be illegitimate, because the procedure still needs a special legislature to support it; we need to make sure there isn’t going to be any trouble later,’ Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel said in the course of a press conference in Yekaterinburg. As it happens, the Governor had said earlier that Sverdlovsk Region was not going to provide any financing of The Industrial Urals-The Polar