The claim laid by the public prosecutor for transportation of Serov, Sverdlovsk Region, against Russian Railways Public Company was sustained by the court, the spokesperson for Ural public prosecution authorities for transportation reports. The claim was actually laid on behalf of the local dwellers with disabilities with the aim to protect their rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests; the plaintiff insisted that the railway company take action and restore these people’s infringed rights. The court’s ruling states that Russian Railways Public Company’s Sverdlovsk Region division must make

United Company RUSAL reports some personnel changes at its enterprises. The company’s Bogoslovskiy smelter, for example, now has a new General Director: Yuri Moiseev, the former GD of Nadvoitskiy smelter/NAZ). Krasnoyarsk smelter’s former Production Development Director Alexander Krasovitskiy is going to become Nadvoitskiy smelter’s new GD. Bogoslovskiy smelter’s former GD Oleg Burkatskiy has been appointed UC RUSAL Krasnoyarsk smelter’s Production Development Director, UC RUSAL’s press service says.

Arbitration court is now looking into the claim laid by Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg against KD Avia and VIM-AVIA. The airport wants the defendants to pay it 7.41 million RUR and 1.993 million RUR, respectively. The airport’s press officer explains the sums represent the airlines’ debts for ground services rendered to them by the airport.

The members of NLMK Group sold 779,000 tons of fittings, 160,000 tons of steel work-pieces, 146,000 tons of metal goods, and 77,000 tons of wire rod to their customers in January-September 2009. This was, respectively, 13% and 66% less and 29% and 97% more than in January-September 2008. The enterprises also recycled and shipped to consumers 1.8 million tons of scrap ferrous metals, which was 17% less than a year earlier. Then, the Group’s share of the building bars market came to more than 20% in nine months of 2009; that of the wire rod market came to 16%, and that of the metal goods market

A Yekaterinburg dweller claims VUZ-Bank gave her a counterfeited banknote, a number of Sverdlovsk Region-based TV compnies report. Galina Perevalova insists a fake bill was found among the banknotes she received upon closing her bank deposit. The problem was detected in another bank where she took the money in order to open a new deposit. VUZ-Bank (Life Group’s asset) representative deny any possibility of having given a customer a fake banknote and explain all their cash undergoes several security check stages. The officers of Yekaterinburg’s Chkalovskiy District Economic Offense Department