Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin signed a provision regarding the prevention of АН1N1 flu outbreak in the region. The list of measures is to be drawn up by his deputies Andrei Kosilov and Evgeniy Redin, who will lead an ad hoc team consisting of Health Minister Viktor Shepelev, Minister for Agriculture Ivan Feklin, Minister for Radiation and Environmental Safety Gennady Podtesov, head of Rospotrebnadzor’s Chelyabinsk Region division Anatoly Semenov, head of Rosselkhoznadzor’s Chelyabinsk Region division Sergey Naumov, and heads of some other ministries and departments. This team is

Vladimir Baltin has been appointed the Director of URSA Bank’s Chelyabinsk branch after being approved of by the Central Bank of Russia’s local division, the bank’s press officer reports. ‘Vladimir Baltin was born on November 18, 1970 in Izhevsk, the Republic of Udmurtia. He graduated from Izhevsk Mechanical Institute with a major in instrument making in 1993. In 1998, he got his degree in Finances and Lending at Izhevsk State Technical University. Between 1993 and 2007, Baltin was employed in various capacities ranging from an economist to a deputy branch CEO at Udmurtinveststroybank,

The international rating agency has recently demoted LSR Group’s long-term Issuer Default Rating (the foreign currency one) and their priority, unsecured rating from B to B-. What is more, the Group’s long-term Issuer Default Rating has been placed on the Rating Watch as Negative. ‘The drop is reflexive of Fitch’s feeling that the company is faced with an increased risk of not getting the financing needed in due time. Meanwhile, the Group needs this money to pay off its short-term debts,’ Fitch Ratings reports. The agency also took into account the fact that LSR Group’s liquidity figures went

The City of Revda’s own budget was implemented by 72 million RUR (in terms of revenues) in the first quarter of 2009, which comes to 87% of the figures for a year earlier, Mayor Andrei Semenov announced at a governmental meeting targeted at supporting Sverdlovsk Region’s enterprises. The information to this extent has been supplied by the spokesperson for the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region. According to Nizhneserginskiy metal goods plant’s acting General Director Fanis Khusainov, the plant’s losses amounted to more than 1.9 billion RUR in the first quarter of the year.

Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Works (NLMK) and Zaporozhstal’s countermanding their 1.5 billion RUR worth or orders (nearly completed by the company already) turned out to be Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation’s major problem, the enterprise’s acting GD Vadim Dadyka explained at a governmental meeting targeted at supporting Sverdlovsk Region’s enterprises. ‘Our storehouses keep getting packed with half-finished and completed items, and our workers’ wages have gone down by 8,000 RUR to 9,000 RUR on average,’ he added.