Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court sustained the claim laid by the city of Novouralsk against AMUR car factory; the plaintiff insisted on the defendant paying them over 15 million RUR for violating the terms of paying off the loan offered to the factory from the city’s budgetary funds. Novouralsk Municipal Duma decided to offer the company 15 million RUR to be paid off by March 12, 2009 and another 50 million RUR to be paid off by August 13, 2009. On June 4, 2009, Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court is going to look into another claim laid by the city of Novouralsk against AMUR car factory

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court started investigating the claim laid by Bank Severnaya Kazna against Mayak Corporation regarding the 122,032,096.43-RUR debt; the plaintiff also insists on having the corporation’s mortgaged property arrested. The preliminary hearing has been scheduled for June 3, 2009. Mayak Corporation’s President Marina Konkova said earlier that they had been trying to negotiate for debt refinancing. In fact, the bank has already placed several claims with the court, with Mayak Corporation announcing they were about to leave the housing construction market.

‘The supply for the salary-through-a-bank-card schemes exceeds the demand at the moment, since most banks are rather interested in commission-based services with a guaranteed income and zero risks,’ URSA Bank’s Vice President Alexei Sannikov said to an UrBC reporter. ‘So it happens quite often that a customer can consider the offers from a number of banks and choose the scheme that suits them best. This means the competition goes up and the service and the products improve,’ he explained.

‘The peace settlement regarding the existing debt that Sinara Pipe Plant and Kamensk Communal Housing Services Company have come to actually infringes upon the interests of other local energy suppliers,’ Sverdlovteplosbyt (subsidiary of TGK-9) says. The company promised to pay off its 174-million-ruble debt to Sinara Pipe Plant by July 1, 2009. At the same time, Kamensk Communal Housing Services Company and Sverdlovteplosbyt signed another agreement in May 2009 that was made invalid because of the changes in Kamensk Communal Housing Services Company’s ownership scheme. The company currently

This June, Rostechnadzor’s Ural Federal District’s division is going to carry out security inspections at UC RUSAL’s Bogoslovskiy smelter, UAZ smelter, Kremniy-Ural, Severouralsk Bauxite Mine, Polevskoy Cryolith Plant, SUBR-Stroy, and RUS Engineering. The safety watchdog is also planning on checking the industrial safety at a number of mining enterprises such as Zoloto Severnogo Urala, Uralasbest, Novo-Kalyinskaya Mine, and SUBR, Rostechnadzor’s press officer reports. The inspections schedule has been approved of by the head of Rostechnadzor’s Ural Federal District’s division Anatoly