Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin attended a meeting of Ural Federal District’s constituency heads chaired by head of the Russian Federation Government Administration Sergey Sobyanin and made a number of proposals regarding the Government’s anti-crisis action plan for 2009. The spokesperson for the Governor reports Sumin spoke about the inter-budgetary problems; for one, Chelyabinsk Region’s Federal Tax Service division’s profits had already dropped by 34% because of the smaller tax payments. Then, as the action plan provides for 300-billion-ruble subsidies to the regions, Governor

Ural Tire Works, Ural Lift-Building Plant, Uralneftegazstroy, Stroyinvest, Uralstroyinvest, Aston Building Company, Uralstroy, and Uralstroy-1 have been placed on the list of companies owing more than 1 million RUR to the state (i.e. the Russian Federation budget), Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Tax Service reports. All in all, the list comprised 341 enterprises on March 15, 2009.

Kamensk Uralskiy Foundry, Baranchinskiy Electromechanical Plant, and Kushvinskiy Forming Roll Plant have been placed on the list of companies owing more than 1 million RUR to the state (the Russian Federation budget, that is). All in all, the list comprised 341 enterprises on March 15, 2009.

Bank Severnaya Kazna’s additional office at 3 Khimikov Lane, Yekaterinburg is going to close down soon. The outlet will last welcome its private customers on March 30, 2009, while business customers will be able to use its services until April 24, 2009. The information to this extent has been placed on the bank’s official website.

‘The stockholders will probably decide not to pay the dividend for 2008 when they meet at the AGM at the end of April. This is the decision they normally make,’ the spokesperson for Klyuchevskoy Ferrous Alloys Works said to an UrBC reporter. ‘Our production output has been going down over the last few months, which is actually the case throughout the entire ferrous alloys branch. We’ve managed to avoid redundancies, however,’ the spokesperson said.