Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin allocated 156 million RUR from the region’s budget, to be invested in Chelyabinsk’s education system. According to the spokesperson for the Governor, the money is one of the many portions provided by the budget for local education programs this year. All in all, the city will be given 2.225 million RUR in 2009, of which 1.6 million will be spent on teachers’ salaries. Chelyabinsk’s 145 schools employ about 5,500 teachers, while the entire region’s 938 schools employ over 27,500 teachers. All these people’s salaries are fully and timely covered by the

Chairman of the Russian Federation State Duma and Head of United Russia’s Supreme Council Boris Gryzlov feels the government should support The Industrial Urals – The Polar Urals (an ambitious large-scale project on the industrial development of the Urals’ north) by providing some subsidies from the Investment Fund, Prime TASS reports. ‘United Russia has been involved in this project for two years now. I believe the documentation will have been fully confirmed by the end of the year; however, the state budget does not cover the financing for the project in 2010-2012,’ Gryzlov said to Head of

The region’s Deputy Prosecutor wants the court to cancel the agreement regarding the rent of land allotment (cadastral No. 66:41:07 02 064:0078) with the area of 2,800 sq m located in Sovetskaya St. in Yekaterinburg. According to the land use map, the allotment is actually situated in the middle of Zheleznodorozhnikov St.-Pionerov St.-Uralskaya St. - Sovetskaya St. quarter. The plaintiff requires that this land allotment be yielded back to Yekaterinburg municipal council.

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court will resume hearing of the claim laid by Bank VTB against Pnevmostroymashina on October 20, 2009. The plaintiff wants to be paid 51.88 million RUR and to have the defendant’s mortgaged property arrested. The sum of the claim is made up of 50 million RUR worth of debt proper (resulting from the loan agreement signed on December 24, 2007), a certain amount of loan interest, and the commission charged for cash transactions. As for the mortgaged property in question, these are the assets of PSM-Gidravlika used as collateral for the loan agreement. The bank has

Sverdlovsk Region environmental prosecution authorities detected numerous violations of the existing laws at Uralkhimmash, their spokesperson reports. For one, the enterprise whose production process involves sixty-one different kinds of by-products and waste has no certificates listing the hazard class of these wastes and carries no passports or documentation for sixteen kinds of hazardous pollutants. What is more, the workers handling this hazardous waste have not received any professional, documented training. Then, Uralkhimmash is supposed to maintain a 100-meter protective zone in