President of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev arrived in Yekaterinburg to take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRIC summits on June 15-16, 2009. The presidential plane was greeted by Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolai Vinnichenko and Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel. The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states (Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) and observing states (India, Iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan) are planning to discuss the

The shareholders of Uralsvyazinform (the Urals’ major telecommunications provider) elected their new Board of Directors in the course of the annual general meeting in Perm. According to Uralsvyazinform’s report, only eleven out of twenty-four proposed BOD members were actually voted for. These were: Evgeniy Yurchenko, Alla Grigorieva, Eduard Lebedev, Mikhail Batmanov, Olga Koroleva, Elena Umnova, Mikhail Leschenko, Alexander Provorotov, Sergey Kerber, Dmitriy Tushnov, and Anatoly Ufimkin.

Nizhneserginskiy metal goods plant’s shareholders decided at their annual general meeting to pass the dividend for 2008 and to leave the undistributed profit within the company, the enterprise’s press officer reports. In the course of the meeting, the shareholders also approved of the plant’s annual report for 2008, of the annual accounting report, and of their profit and loss statement for last financial year. What is more, the new BOD was elected, consisting of V. Vorotnikov, E. Ovcharov, O. Shargunova, V. Shevelev, and S. Chebotarev.